It only now occurs to me that the line of thinking I follow here is sub-consciously inspired by section 3 of this Marvin Minsky talk (https://web.media.mit.edu/

It only now occurs to me that the line of thinking I follow here is sub-consciously inspired by section 3 of this Marvin Minsky talk (https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/TuringLecture/TuringLecture.html https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/TuringLecture/Turin...). If you're at all interested in the intersection of learning and computer science, I highly recommend taking a look.