Transforming Kantian Aesthetic Principles into Qualitative Hermeneutics for Contemplative AGI Agents

摘要

This paper introduces an interdisciplinary qualitative hermeneutic approach to the engineering and computer science methodological paradigm(s) for assessing a contemplative-agent's cognitive capabilities at a level corresponding to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This paper has utilized cognitive intensity levels from Kantian aesthetic philosophy to qualitatively re-address Russell and Norvig's canonical agent-categories as they scale upward towards AGI cognition levels. These Kantian levels allow the AGI-agent designer to consider the cognitive interplay between computational representations of the imagination and reason as they relate to motivationally-nuanced teleological notions of self-interest versus disinterestedness. While the AGI level is the thematic focus, lower intensity levels are also introduced in order to set the appropriate cognitive benchmarks for higher levels corresponding to truly contemplative AGI-agents. This paper first contextualizes Kant's analytical framework before discussing the appropriately corresponding agent-categories. This paper concludes with a brief discussion of the particular methodological and hermeneutic contribution of Kant's aesthetic philosophical framework to the AGI domain.