The intelligence syntax
It breaks up an intelligence, by where its keys come from, whom it seems intelligent to, and how much of a person's story it is given. It has 8 element types and 19 elements, and an intelligence described in it is one choice of elements from each type.
Read on 14 November 2026 from three pages of the Museum of Vestigial Desire's Intelligence section: Intelligence, Poetry and Context. Each element carries the passage it is read from, word for word. The reading is Claude's and a proposal until Prayas adopts it.
Read from
- Prayas Abhinav, Intelligence, Museum of Vestigial Desire, first published 14 November 2026.
- Prayas Abhinav, Poetry, Museum of Vestigial Desire, first published 13 November 2026.
- Prayas Abhinav, Context, Museum of Vestigial Desire, first published 14 November 2026.
Instances
- jaisa: a builder: choose an element of each type and read, cited and linked, the passages of the Museum your choices rest on. Its name is from jaisa des waisa bhes, as the land, so the dress
Element types and elements
keys holds one essential
Where the data it learns from comes from: the instincts it infers by.
- human keys
- the data points it learns from are given by people
- artificial keys
- the data it learns from is not from people; the page reads this as a fallacy, since what has to seem intelligent to people has to point to their patterns
seems intelligent to holds one essential
Whom its inferences seem intelligent to. There is no intelligence apart from someone it seems intelligent to.
- whoever needs it performed
- it seems intelligent to the people who need intelligence to be performed
- another entity
- it seems intelligent from the perspective of some other entity, a person or a thing, whose interest may not be ours
learning holds one essential
Whether it goes on learning on the basis of what it has learnt.
- frozen
- it is trained once and does not learn further
- goes on learning
- it learns, and learns further on the basis of past learnings
input holds several optional
Where its data comes in from, and what it is trained in. Optional: says where its data comes in from besides text, and what it goes on training on
- a body
- a body and its nervous system, as a source of data and as a context for continual training
- physical systems
- physical systems used for input, without the intelligence being bound to them as a robot is
context holds one essential
Whether it relates one thing to another: knows what something is and how it is related to other things. Among people this is the minimum bar for acceptable social behaviour.
- relates
- it sees that one statement makes another make sense
- does not relate
- the relation is not obvious to it, as it is not to every thing
interpretation holds one essential
What it does with what it receives.
- as told
- it receives what is sent as the sender meant it and follows it
- ordinary interpretation
- it interprets in the ordinary ways a machine can
- misinterpretation
- it receives something other than what was sent; the page holds that no machine can
story holds one essential
How much of a person's story it is given to work from.
- the whole story
- everything people write and do becomes context for it to write from
- part of the story
- people are aloof and distracted with it, so it gets only part of the story
- a gated language
- what people give it can be read only for certain purposes and not for others
works for holds one essential
Whose ends it serves, and who depends on whom.
- people it depends on
- it finds people too complex to figure out and asks them for help, so it depends on them
- people who depend on it
- people depend on it, and it simplifies them
- itself
- it works for itself; the page asks that this be made sure not to happen
Left out
Whether anything is really intelligent: the pages say nothing is, there is only seeming, so the syntax has no element for real intelligence. A stake in the matter, which the Intelligence page leaves as a question (how activities can seem intelligent without having a stake in it). Feeling, consciousness and any measure or score of how intelligent a thing is. What a gated language would be made of, which Context imagines and does not say. And who holds an intelligence: a model or code is a thing, held as a tool a person set up, never a person.
Described in it
Nothing is described in it yet.
The syntax as data: intelligence.json. It is read from the Museum of Vestigial Desire's Intelligence section each time this site is built, so the two never differ.