Achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) using Self Models

"The essence of general intelligence is the capacity to imagine oneself" -- myself Recognize that to gain the perspective that comes from seeing things through another's eyes, you must suspend judgement for a time -- only by empathizing can you properly evaluate another point of view. Moravec's paradox is the observation made by many AI researchers that high-level reasoning requires less computation than low-level unconscious cognition. This is an empirical observation that goes against the notion that greater computational capability leads to more intelligent systems. However, we have today computer systems that have super-human symbolic reasoning capabilities. Nobody is going to argue that a man with an abacus, a chess grandmaster or a champion Jeopardy player has any chance at besting a computer.