The Universe of Minds
This work addresses foundational questions about mind design for AI and cognitive science, but it is incremental as it builds on existing taxonomies and concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of describing the space of possible mind designs by equating minds to software, proving properties like infinitude and complexity, and proposes a new field called intellectology with open problems.
The paper attempts to describe the space of possible mind designs by first equating all minds to software. Next it proves some interesting properties of the mind design space such as infinitude of minds, size and representation complexity of minds. A survey of mind design taxonomies is followed by a proposal for a new field of investigation devoted to study of minds, intellectology, a list of open problems for this new field is presented.