The central promise of Deep Objekt is articulating the nature of general intelligence–both as a matter of a renegotiation of the boundaries between complexity, computation, cognition, conceptualization, and the understanding of the contexts under which the term general in the phrase general intelligence is or can be defined is by all means a significant task ahead. It is to this end that Deep Objekt is committed to looking at general intelligence in all its past and future richness and potentials that require a re-understanding and a recontextualization of how general intelligence evolves, is individuated and transforms in the deep Darwinian time and in the deep time of intelligence’s history as that which that might belong to the processes of the past or those of the future. We do not yet know what has come truly in the past or will come in the future. The figure of intelligence is deep, broadly understood from the perspective of informational complexity, history, commitment, and collective understanding. There is a deep correlation between the concept of general intelligence and computation.

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Historically, computation is understood as only one sort of thing under specific mathematical principles and, nevertheless, rich behaviors have been hammer-strong, meaning constrained by under-explored aspects of computation as a process. Then, in this deep correlation, any fundamental change in the conception of general intelligence correlates to a change in the concepts or the frontiers of what can be a computation. General intelligence is a form of computation, it belongs to a concept of computation that allows for different modes of computation, indexing different sorts of behaviors, at different hierarchies pushing forward the computation.

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Framework and Concepts: Sepideh Majidi