22 2 What Is Human-Like General Intelligence? — Dualcoding theories — Mental models e Language — Grammar and linguistics — Phonetics and phonology — Language acquisition e Thinking — Choice — Concept formation — Judgment and decision making — Logic, formal and natural reasoning — Problem solving — Planning — Numerical cognition — Creativity e Consciousness — Attention and Filtering (the ability to focus mental effort on specific stimuli whilst excluding other stimuli from consideration) — Access consciousness — Phenomenal consciousness e Social Intelligence — Distributed Cognition — Empathy If there’s nothing surprising to you in the above list, I’m not surprised! If you’ve read a bit in the modern cognitive science literature, the list may even seem trivial. But it’s worth reflecting that 50 years ago, no such list could have been produced with the same level of broad acceptance. And less than 100 years ago, the Western world’s scientific understanding of the mind was dominated by Freudian thinking; and not too long after that, by behaviorist thinking, which argued that theorizing about what went on inside the mind made no sense, and science should focus entirely on analyzing external behavior. The progress of cognitive science hasn't made as many headlines as contemporaneous progress in neuroscience or computing hardware and software, but it’s certainly been dramatic. One of the reasons that AGI is more achievable now than in the 1950s and 60s when the AT field began, is that now we understand the structures and processes characterizing human thinking a lot better. In spite of all the theoretical and empirical progress in the cognitive science field, however, there is still no consensus among experts on how the various aspects of intelligence in the above “human intelligence feature list” are achieved and interrelated. In these pages, however, for the purpose of motivating CogPrime, we assume a broad integrative understanding roughly as follows: e Percep