{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/yet-another-theoretical-model-of-thinking","title":"(Yet) Another Theoretical Model of Thinking","arxiv_id":"1511.02455","date":"2015-11-08","proceeding":null,"authors":["Patrick Virie"],"abstract":"This paper presents a theoretical, idealized model of the thinking process\nwith the following characteristics: 1) the model can produce complex thought\nsequences and can be generalized to new inputs, 2) it can receive and maintain\ninput information indefinitely for the generation of thoughts and later use,\nand 3) it supports learning while executing. The crux of the model lies within\nthe concept of internal consistency, or the generated thoughts should always be\nconsistent with the inputs from which they are created. Its merit, apart from\nthe capability to generate new creative thoughts from an internal mechanism,\ndepends on the potential to help training to generalize better. This is\nconsequently enabled by separating input information into several parts to be\nhandled by different processing components with a focus mechanism to fetch\ninformation for each. This modularized view with the focus binds the model with\nthe computationally capable Turing machines. And as a final remark, this paper\nconstructively shows that the computational complexity of the model is at\nleast, if not surpass, that of a universal Turing machine.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02455v4","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.02455v4.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"yet-another-theoretical-model-of-thinking","repo_url":"https://github.com/PVirie/vmachine","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"model","task_name":"model"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}