The Hidden Pattern: A Patternist Philosophy of Mind

Author: Ben Goertzel
Year: 2006
Publisher: Brown Walker Press
Links: Amazon, Free PDF

Summary

Lays out the "patternist" philosophy of mind — the idea that mind is fundamentally about pattern recognition and formation. Argues that intelligence, consciousness, and other mental phenomena can be understood through the lens of pattern theory grounded in algorithmic information.

Relevance to Hyperon

Provides the philosophical foundation for the entire Hyperon/OpenCog approach to AGI. The patternist perspective directly motivates the metagraph-based knowledge representation and the emphasis on pattern mining across multiple cognitive processes.