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Intelligence Becomes Science

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Scientific intelligence emerges when reasoning enters a closed epistemic loop: the system formulates representations, intervenes in computational or physical reality, meets evidence beyond its control, and revises the commitments that fail. This exposure has a cost - the pain of becoming, a disciplined encounter with evidence that resists expectation - and a payoff: preserved as executable knowledge, each failure becomes the starting point of the next inquiry. The loop, and the experience it accumulates as memory, turn intelligence into science.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21965096

Author: Buehler, Markus J.

Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7203571790

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