THE HIDDEN PATTERN

The Hidden Pattern presents a novel philosophy of mind intended to form a coherent conceptual framework within which it is possible to understand the diverse aspects of mind and intelligence in a unified way The central concept of the philosophy presented is the concept of pattern minds and the world they live in and cocreate are viewed as patterned systems of patterns evolving over time and various aspects of subjective experience and individual and social intelligence are analyzed in detail in this light Many of the ideas presented are motivated by recent research in artificial intelligence and cognitive science and the authors own AI research is discussed in moderate detail in one chapter However the scope of the book is broader than this incorporating insights from sources as diverse as Vedantic philosophy psychedelic psychotherapy Nietzschean and Peircean metaphysics and quantum theory One of the unique aspects of the patternist approach is the way it seamlessly fuses the mechanistic engineeringoriented approach to intelligence and the introspective experiential approach to intelligence