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A small-world model of the human mind

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We propose a model of the human mind from first principles and introspection. We then try to represent that model as a semantic network. Finally, we hypothesize that the key for the intelligent processing of information might be to consider that the semantic network graph to be a kind of small-world.

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  • (2013)Delay of Social Search on Small-World GraphsThe Journal of Mathematical Sociology10.1080/0022250X.2011.62906238:1(1-46)Online publication date: 19-Dec-2013

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      SAC '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
      April 2006
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      ISBN:1595931082
      DOI:10.1145/1141277
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      1. intelligence
      2. mind
      3. semantic networks
      4. small-worlds

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      • (2013)Delay of Social Search on Small-World GraphsThe Journal of Mathematical Sociology10.1080/0022250X.2011.62906238:1(1-46)Online publication date: 19-Dec-2013

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