In Search of a Universal Theory of Intelligence

Intelligence in this "clean room" environment can be defined with respect to accumulated systematic methods of reasoning. So a logic proof system can be defined to be more efficient at solving a mathematical task than a comparable human. The more civilization transitions into a virtualized world, the more likely humans will find synthetic minds that are'more intelligent'. Classical definitions of computation tend to favor sequential processes. A consequence is that more natural parallel processes such as evolution tend to be ignored. Therefore a properly informed definition of intelligence must take into account how to scale parallel cognition.