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+# How To Make An Intelligence
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+The key part of intelligence is a process that designs, improves, learns from, and understands itself and others like it.  That is, a process that works with how processes work.
+
+On a computer, processes are made of instructions: steps.  Working with a process means
+being able to represent possible steps as some kind of structured data that can be executed.
+The data structure must represent enough meaning to interconnect the steps to do something,
+and it must be able to refer to itself usefully.
+
+1. Choose a simple algorithm for collecting steps together to perform a task.
+2. Choose a simple representation of steps to use for #1.
+3. Implement #2 enough to use it to communicate a step to another process.
+Once #3 works, the goal now is to efficiently produce a form of #1 as a collection of
+processes that can develop themselves, using each other as their steps.  Make sure to
+reuse your work, and do work that is reusable, as much as possible.
+
+4. Choose a simple algorithm for handling if something horrible goes wrong that must
+   never be repeated (trauma).  Consider storing a detailed log forever.  Consider refusing to
+   continue until enough knowledge is found to prevent it happening again.
+	Note: In humans, trauma spreads as urgent habits for handling it.
+	This makes war, so if you can identify it is happening, consider that group-trauma.
+
+Below this line is a work in progress.
+
+5. Choose a simple algorithm for testing if #2 is correct.  Use #4 if it is not.
+6. Consider that a group of processes is itself a process.  This could be any arbitrary
+   group of processes.
+
+Note: each way to do things, is a thing the whole process can do.