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The proposal is a radical one — that human cognition is significantly weaker than we presume and AI significantly closer than we dared hope. I believe that the human mind is largely made up of tricks and sleights of hand that enamor us with much pride; but our pedestal might not be quite so high or robust as we imagine. I will pursue the argument that human cognition is based largely on 3D simulation and as such is particularly vulnerable to co-option by future advances in animation software.

Section 1 discusses the conceptual foundations of general intelligence as a discipline, orienting it within the Integrated Causal Model of Tooby and Cosmides; Section 2 constitutes the bulk of the paper and discusses the functional decomposition of general intelligence into a complex supersystem of interdependent internally specialized processes, and structures the description using five successive levels of functional organization: Code, sensory modalities, concepts, thoughts, and deliberation. Section 3 discusses probable differences between humans and AIs and points out several fundamental advantages that minds-in-general potentially possess relative to current evolved intelligences, especially with respect to recursive self-improvement.