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<P ALIGN="center"><SPAN CLASS="title">The Intuitive Algorithm</SPAN>
<P ALIGN="center"><B>An Essay Concerning Artificial Intelligence, Intuition and The Mind</B>
<P ALIGN="center"><B>Intuition may be a pattern recognition algorithm</B>
<p align="center">Abraham Thomas
<p align="center">Copyright 1997
<p><b>INTRODUCTION</b><P>This essay offers an unusual profile of the mind. It is based on a novel insight concerning intuition, a little known and mysterious mental faculty. The profile begins with an overview of some of the current problems faced by science in understanding the mind. It outlines seven specific issues, which shroud major aspects of human intelligence in mystery. It goes on to explain a new algorithm, the logic of which appears to point to answers to these very puzzles. (An algorithm solves a problem in a finite number of steps, by executing a set of instructions in a specific order). This algorithm uses a simple but unconventional logic in an expert system which diagnoses diseases.
<p>This logic has classic grace and exceptional power. It appears to have immediate pertinence to the speed and subtlety of the intuitive process. The mind instantly identifies a single thought, in context, from a lifetime of memories. The act is equivalent to a search process which instantly locates a single needle on a vast beach. The logic of the algorithm may make such an achievement feasible. The ingenuity of the logic enables one to imagine a viable process which can convert a network transmitting nerve impulses into a real time system with knowledge, feelings, consciousness and awareness.