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The Art of Making Problems Simple: A Theory of Intelligence

2026-01-03

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<p>Human intelligence is flexible and general, yet its underlying structure remains poorly understood. We propose that intelligence arises from the ability to construct and revise representational normal forms, that is, coordinate systems in which prediction, comparison, and inference become simple. This capacity rests on four operations: identifying lawful generators of variation, quotienting task-irrelevant diff...

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Literature Corpus work: c90d97f9-1ed9-597b-953c-224b94140075
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/pghzn_v1

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