The future of intelligence: The central meaning-making unit of intelligence in the mind, the brain, and artificial intelligence

This paper focuses on general intelligence, g. We first point to broadly accepted facts about g: it is robust, reliable, and sensitive learning. then summarize conflicting theories its nature development (Mutualism, Process Overlap Theory, Dynamic Mental Field Theory) suggest how future research may resolve their disputes. A model proposed for g involving a core meaning-making mechanism, noetron, drawing Alignment, Abstraction, Cognizance, perpetually generating new mental content. Noetron develops through several levels of control: episodic ? attentional inferential truth epistemic control in infancy, preschool, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, respectively. Finally, we propose an agenda brain research, assuming artificial intelligence that might uncover the underlying mechanisms generate intelligence.