Since I did not see it in the article or in the comments here: Intelligence is compression / dimensionality reduction. Finding the essential parts of a problem/

Since I did not see it in the article or in the comments here: Intelligence is compression / dimensionality reduction. Finding the essential parts of a problem/object/concept and creating a code book for it. The better you can compress things, the better you understand them. If you know that the left wing of a plane is the same as the right wing of a plane, but rotated/flipped, then you would not need to store (redundant) information about both wings. The upper bound to an intelligent action is the Kolmogorov complexity (upper bound to compression) of the problem it aims to solve. http://www.hutter1.net/ai/pfastprg.htm http://www.hutter1.net/ai/pfastprg.htm (The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems)