Concept->Name mapping is not a problem unique to software and it has always seemed to me to be (and I feel like somewhat of an arrogant ass saying this) a consc

Concept->Name mapping is not a problem unique to software and it has always seemed to me to be (and I feel like somewhat of an arrogant ass saying this) a consciousness-level problem. In order to do this, seems to me you need: 1) Abstract pattern extraction 2) Abstract pattern to word mapping 3) Composition/decomposition of composite abstract patterns 4) Transforms on abstract patterns Think about the game of Go. You have patterns that repeat throughout games, but with small variations and with various transformations; you've got to be able to extract the common pattern from the specific instance, and the commonalities of the variations, and the common transforms (such as something as simple as rotation/reflection). Then you've got to have a mapping from those patterns (and meta-patterns) to words. Near as I can tell, that part of the problem is basically culturally established; whatever internal encoding you have for the abstractions is unlikely to be communicable to other entities. You have to work out with those other entities (aka, humans) what some of those patterns should be called.