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NESS, the Neural-Symbolic Sandwich
Article Sep 29, 2026

NESS, the Neural-Symbolic Sandwich

A new direction for making transformers AGI-friendly—via judiciously mixing continuous symbolic program learning into open-weights transformers.
Ben Goertzel 43 min read
Distinction-Calculus: New Math for Minds That Can Fork, Merge and Morph
Article Oct 2, 2026

Distinction-Calculus: New Math for Minds That Can Fork, Merge and Morph

Ben Goertzel’s distinction calculus proposes mathematics for AI agents that split, merge and rewrite themselves, raising a central AGI question: how can changing minds preserve what matters?
Ben Goertzel 50 min read
Unlocking the Patterns of Meaning: Intensional Inheritance Between Concepts
Community Feb 19, 2026

Unlocking the Patterns of Meaning: Intensional Inheritance Between Concepts

An information-theoretic framework quantifying intensional inheritance, enabling AI systems to model conceptual meaning, probabilistic relationships, and human-like reasoning beyond simple example-based hierarchies.

Henok Yoseph 5 min read