Artificial Intelligence: Understanding

Humans do not think by sifting through raw sensory data or endless strings of past knowledge. Instead, we think in distinct, singular understandings. We are only conscious of these meta-thoughts, leaping from one understanding to the next. An understanding is the coalescence of sensory particles— the precipitate forming from the haze of some spectral Cartesian film. Our thoughts and actions are not governed by a single, instantaneous frame passing before our eyes. Rather, they are the result of many frames integrated through time into continuous motion.

The key to understanding in artificial intelligence is in relational properties. I believe intelligence is the consummation of a web of complex relations. Understanding is a super-relational property, the property that binds past and present into a single entity.