Synthetic Reasoning

Abstract

As explained earlier, the ability to reason within a SELF denotes the ability to infer about information, knowledge, observations, and experiences, and affect internal changes that enable it to perform new tasks previously unknown or to perform tasks already learned more efficiently. The act of reasoning, or inferring, allows a SELF to construct or modify representations of experiencing and learning. Reasoning allows a SELF to fill in skeletal or incomplete information or specification (self-assessment). Hence, this chapter is devoted to architectures and frameworks to enable artificial reasoning within a SELF’s cognitive processes that synthesizes human reasoning. First, we will discuss the various stages and forms of human reasoning. The rest of the chapter is devoted to adapting human reasoning concepts into SELF reasoning architectures.