Conclusion

Everything that really matters in the world has form and behavior predictability. Sure, fancy mathematics can predict the exact arc of a theoretical cannon shell. But the universal language of object form and behavior (reality) is not English or math, it is 3D animation. More intriguing still, is that the 3D simulations within the brain are intimately "connected/grounded" to reality through our senses and muscles (the sensorimotor system), whereas data in electronic systems is almost entirely disconnected.

This theory challenges much conventional wisdom about human action, consciousness and artificial intelligence. In its simplest form, the theory presents these processes, all of them, by a single paradigm; 3D object computing. That is, all mental activity centers around the processing of virtual 3D objects.

The process involves the recognition of objects in reality from the sensory input flow (instantiation) and constructing an internal scene simulations based on those remembered precedents. These simulations exists beyond the fixed time reference of the outside world, because the memory precedents of the assembled objects contain a series of 3D "movie script like" scenarios for each of the objects - as learned from the past. As such, they can be used to make predictions of past and future action. Being virtual, these predictions can beat the time of reality, to allow a human to say, catch a ball in a future moment, and to know the balls origin from the past. I.e. consciousness performs time dilation by building a simulation from memory precedents, which animate through virtual time. The simulated objects can be triggered into initial alignment with reality by the human senses. But the simulations easily yield control to the collections of animated memory precedents aroused by the scene, which subconsciously search out emotional value peaks and troughs based on the biologically inspired pleasure/pain value axis. Together with metaphoric links and substitutions, this allows creativity in the choice of physical action, while remaining broadly aligned to mental goals.

Language and symbols are sensory objects too, and are extensions of the same simulation processes. But they have the special properties of indexing 3D objects and scene narrative; including empathic states, subjective values and goals. Allowing ideas to be shared socially, with wisdom traveling through the generations.

The gist of this research is that all conscious and intelligent processes center around 3D simulation; with language and symbols used for indexing and scripting. That all knowledge can be understood in terms of 3D model behavior based on precedent. That software designed to handle 3D models and environments, will be central to AI and this commercial software is advancing rapidly. ^14-