Artificial General Intelligence by Patrick Hammer & Pulin Agrawal & Ben Goertzel & Matthew Iklé

Author:Patrick Hammer & Pulin Agrawal & Ben Goertzel & Matthew Iklé
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030270056
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

5 Cognition and Intelligence from an RFT Perspective

From an RFT perspective, cognition is not a mental event that mediates between environment and behavior. It is rather a behavioral event (AARR), and hence, it can be studied and understood within a behavioral psychology framework, using experiments such as the matching-to-sample task described above. Another way to put it: arbitrarily applicable relational responses are what “minds” are full of, and when we speak of “cognitive” phenomena (such as thinking, planning, remembering, decision making) we are referring to complex instances of relational framing that are more or less evident under different environmental conditions [15].

Regarding intelligence, the core idea from RFT is that AARR represents the basic functional “building block” of cognitive and linguistic skills, such as deductive and inductive reasoning, communication, etc., all of which underpin intelligent behavior. In essence, intelligent acts involve the ability to elaborate networks of derived stimulus relations fluently and flexibly, to transform stimulus functions through entire networks, and to bring relational responses under increasingly subtle forms of contextual control, by abstracting relevant contextual features with high precision.

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