智能与意识源于关系结构,而非预测或特定机制。
Systems Explaining Systems: A Framework for Intelligence and Consciousness
- 以关系结构为基础构建智能系统,通过上下文增强实现高效信息处理。
- 递归架构使高层系统能理解低层系统的模式,形成动态元状态。
- 适合研究认知科学、人工意识及类人智能的学者参考。
本文提出一个概念框架,认为智能与意识源于关系结构,而非预测或领域特定机制。智能被定义为在信号、行为和内部状态之间建立并整合因果联系的能力。通过上下文增强,系统利用习得的关系结构解释输入信息,以高效表示形式提供必要上下文,克服原始输入缺乏的信息局限,在代谢约束下实现高效处理。在此基础上,引入系统解释系统的原理:当递归架构允许高层系统跨时间学习并解释低层系统的关联模式时,意识便产生。这些解释被整合进动态稳定的元状态,并通过上下文增强反馈,使内部模型从对外部世界的表征转变为对自身认知过程的建模。该框架将预测加工重新阐释为上下文解释的衍生结果,提示递归多系统架构可能是实现更类人人工智能的必要条件。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper proposes a conceptual framework in which intelligence and consciousness emerge from relational structure rather than from prediction or domain-specific mechanisms. Intelligence is defined as the capacity to form and integrate causal connections between signals, actions, and internal states. Through context enrichment, systems interpret incoming information using learned relational structure that provides essential context in an efficient representation that the raw input itself does not contain, enabling efficient processing under metabolic constraints. Building on this foundation, we introduce the systems-explaining-systems principle, where consciousness emerges when recursive architectures allow higher-order systems to learn and interpret the relational patterns of lower-order systems across time. These interpretations are integrated into a dynamically stabilized meta-state and fed back through context enrichment, transforming internal models from representations of the external world into models of the system's own cognitive processes. The framework reframes predictive processing as an emergent consequence of contextual interpretation rather than explicit forecasting and suggests that recursive multi-system architectures may be necessary for more human-like artificial intelligence.
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