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==Meme==
[[Mind Brain Intelligence Knowledge Wisdom]] and many other labeled components are involved in what we call thinking. What is of interest to the practitioner is: "Which can be isolated into an [[Entity]] that is a persistent identifiable object?"

The specific problem faced by computer science, which of these should be identified and tracking in a [[Digital Public Infrastructure]]?

==Taxonomy==
Each of these concepts is connected. They form a layered hierarchy from mechanism to meaning. Here's a breakdown that moves from the physical to the philosophical:

===Brain===
* The physical organ—a biological structure made of neurons and synapses. This is a distributed function in some living creatures like: octopus, jellyfish and snails.
* It processes signals, controls bodily functions, and enables cognition.
* Think of it as hardware. See the wiki on [[General Theory of Living Systems]].
* Computer hardware may have the same sort of distributed functionality including some virtualization of hardware computer systems.

===Mind===
* The subjective, conscious experience—thoughts, feelings, imagination.
* Emerges from the brain, but isn’t reducible to it.
* Philosophers debate whether it’s material, emergent, or something else entirely.
* Computer networks could be named and access one or many software and hardware resources as the function adapts to the real world.
* Here we assign an [[Ephemeral]] Agent for an AI to have persistence, in the form of a conversation with an unknown life time.

===Intelligence===
The ability to learn, solve problems, adapt, and reason.
* Can be natural (human, animal) or artificial (like Copilot, Gemini or ChatGPT).
* Often measured through pattern recognition, abstraction, and decision-making.
* Does not have any one identifiable named [[Entity]], but there can be a named URL to access a (non-persistent) general instance.

===Knowledge===
* Information and facts acquired through experience or education.
* Can be explicit (you can explain it) or tacit (like riding a bike—you just know).
* Intelligence helps acquire it, but knowledge is what gets stored and used.
* We can think of knowledge as the collected libraries of input material, or as the Large Language Models build during training.
* Libraries of knowledge as well as LLMs can be named, but that is not specific useful information to most of us.

===Wisdom===
* The ability to apply knowledge and experience with judgment and compassion.
* Concerned with meaning, context, and consequence.
* Not just knowing what can be done, but understanding what should be done.
* We can speak of the Wisdom of the Ages, but generally do not otherwise try to name it.

===Quick summary===
> Brain is the engine, > Mind is the driver, > Intelligence is the ability to navigate, > Knowledge is the map, > Wisdom is knowing which road to take when the map ends.
* As a first approximation is seems like Brains or Agents (librarians) are the most fruitful [[Entity]] naming possibilities. The Entity name will need to come with some sort of assertion about the code instance, that will be the key.