Multiple alignment and intelligence

The SP theory of intelligence aims to simplify and integrate observations and ideas across artificial intelligence, mainstream computing, mathematics, and human perception and cognition, with information compression as a unifying theme. Compression of information is achieved by searching for patterns that match each other and merging or unifying patterns that are the same. More specifically, information compression is achieved via the powerful concept of multiple alignment, borrowed and adapted from bioinformatics. The SP theory, which is realised in the form of a computer model, provides an interpretation for concepts and phenomena in several areas including unsupervised learning, ‘computing’, aspects of mathematics and logic, the representation of knowledge, natural language processing, pattern recognition, several kinds of reasoning, information storage and retrieval, planning and problem solving, information compression, neuroscience, and human perception and cognition.