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The Assothink approach involves three complementary levels.

• A general theory of associative intelligence
• A model
• A set of software components

The three levels are readable as separated parts (sets of articles) in this wiki.

Assothink is a project of Philippe Gonze hosted by Matscape.

The assothink theory: overview

The Assothink theory is both descriptive and elaborative. It is descriptive when attempting to describe parts of natural intelligence processes. It is elaborative when trying to set up forms of artificial intelligence.

Unlike other approaches (ontologies, dictionaries, thesaurus), the Assothink approach tends to manipulate concepts free from language anchoring.  At the basic level, concepts are intrinsically unnamable objects.

The key hope in the assothink theory is emergence. This clearly distinguishes Assothink from reductionnist enterprises.

A more detailed description of the theory is developped in the theory pages.

The assothink model: overview

A more detailed description of the model is developped in the model pages.

Assothink software: overview

The hardware suited to adequately run Assothink would be very simple but massively parallel, with millions of basic active components; highly interconnected. This kind of hardware architecture is not currently available. As a consequence, the Assothink sotware is an emulation software, running on available components (CPU, memory, OS...).

An intermediary relevant architecture is the DPDM architecture.

You can directly access the online web application on www.assothink.com.

Online user guides exist for the Passive Jelly Browser and for the Active Jelly Browser.

Various tehnical notes related to the software are developped in the software pages.

Additional internal notes

Originally the project name was Alex. This was the old main page of the Alex project.

And here is an overview of the Alex phasing process.