The present article describes a possible method for the automatic discovery of a universal human semantic-affective hyperspatial approximation of the human subcognitive substrate - the associative network which French (1990) asserts is the ultimate foundation of the human ability to pass the Turing Test - that does not require a machine to have direct human experience or a physical human body. This method involves automatic programming - such as Koza's genetic programming (1992) - guided in the discovery of the proposed universal hypergeometry by feedback from a Minimum Intelligent Signal Test or MIST (McKinstry, 1997) constructed from a very large number of human validated probabilistic propositions collected from a large population of Internet users. It will be argued that though a lifetime of human experience is required to pass a rigorous Turing Test, a probabilistic propositional approximation of this experience can be constructed via public participation on the Internet, and then used as a fitness function to direct the artificial evolution of a universal hypergeometry capable of classifying arbitrary propositions. A model of this hypergeometry will be presented; it predicts Miller's Magical Number Seven (1956) as the size of human short-term memory from fundamental hypergeometric properties. A system that can lead to the generation of novel propositions or artificial thoughts will also be described. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
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McKinstry, C. (2009). Mind as space: Toward the automatic discovery of a universal human semantic-affective hyperspace - A possible subcognitive foundation of a computer program able to pass the Turing Test. In Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer (pp. 283–299). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6710-5_17
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