Function Alignment: A New Theory of Mind and Intelligence, Part I: Foundations
arXiv Preprint Archive March 27, 2025 Gus G. Xia
This paper introduces function alignment, a novel theory of mind and intelligence that is both intuitively compelling and structurally grounded. It explicitly models how meaning, interpretation, and analogy emerge from interactions among layered representations, forming a coherent framework capable not only of modeling minds but also of serving as a blueprint for building them. One of the key...