The General Theory of General Intelligence: A Pragmatic Patternist
  Perspective
  A multi-decade exploration into the theoretical foundations of artificial and
natural general intelligence, which has been expressed in a series of books and
papers and used to guide a series of practical and research-prototype software
systems, is reviewed at a moderate level of detail. The review covers
underlying philosophies (patternist philosophy of mind, foundational
phenomenological and logical ontology), formalizations of the concept of
intelligence, and a proposed high level architecture for AGI systems partly
driven by these formalizations and philosophies. The implementation of specific
cognitive processes such as logical reasoning, program learning, clustering and
attention allocation in the context and language of this high level
architecture is considered, as is the importance of a common (e.g. typed
metagraph based) knowledge representation for enabling "cognitive synergy"
between the various processes. The specifics of human-like cognitive
architecture are presented as manifestations of these general principles, and
key aspects of machine consciousness and machine ethics are also treated in
this context. Lessons for practical implementation of advanced AGI in
frameworks such as OpenCog Hyperon are briefly considered.
