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Hyperscale Puts the Sapiens into Homo This publication appears in: International Journal of Intelligence Science Authors: R. Cottam, W. Ranson and R. Vounckx Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Pages: 13-36 Publication Date: Jan. 2015
Abstract: The human mind’s evolution owes much to its companion phenomena of intelligence, sapience,
wisdom, awareness and consciousness. In this paper we take the concepts of intelligence and sapience
as the starting point of a route towards elucidation of the conscious mind. There is much
disagreement and confusion associated with the word intelligence. A lot of this results from its use
in diverse contexts, where it is called upon to represent different ideas and to justify different arguments.
Addition of the word sapience to the mix merely complicates matters, unless we can relate
both of these words to different concepts in a way which acceptably crosses contextual boundaries.
We have established a connection between information processing and processor “architecture”
which provides just such a linguistic separation, and which is applicable in either a computational
or conceptual form to any context. This paper reports the argumentation leading up to
a distinction between intelligence and sapience, and relates this distinction to human “cognitive”
activities. Information is always contextual. Information processing in a system always takes place
between “architectural” scales: intelligence is the “tool” which permits an “overview” of the relevance
of individual items of information. System unity presumes a degree of coherence across all
the scales of a system: sapience is the “tool” which permits an evaluation of the relevance of both
individual items and individual scales of information to a common purpose. This hyperscalar coherence
is created through mutual inter-scalar observation, whose recursive nature generates the
independence of high-level consciousness, making humans human. We conclude that intelligence
and sapience are distinct and necessary properties of all information processing systems, and that
the degree of their availability controls a system’s or a human’s cognitive capacity, if not its application.
This establishes intelligence and sapience as prime ancestors of the conscious mind. However,
to our knowledge, there is no current mathematical approach which can satisfactorily deal
with the native irrationalities of information integration across multiple scales, and therefore of
formally modeling the mind. External Link.
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