Intellectology

Intellectology is a field of study introduced by Roman Yampolskiy in 2015. Yampolskiy and Fox have claimed earlier another Copernican Revolution related to the human mind, based on the insight that not only humans have minds, i.e. “we are not central” and “we are ordinary; what we see is common”. Instead the space of possible minds is vast, actually infinite, while the human minds form only a tiny subset within this space.
Therefore, the subject of intellectology is to examine in more detail features of any possible minds. The new field “… will study and classify design space of intelligent agents, work on establishing limits to intelligence (minimum sufficient for general intelligence and maximum subject to physical limits), contribute to consistent measurement of intelligence across intelligent agents, look at recursive self-improving systems, design new intelligences (making AI a sub-field of intellectology) and evaluate capacity for understanding higher level intelligences by lower level ones”. Intellectology is especially relevant given the potential scenario that one other group of minds, i.e. minds of artificial general intelligences, may cohabit with us in the not so far future.
One of the first works in intellectology is an attempt to determine the relation between various types of minds and the accessible fun space, i.e. the space of non-boring activities. Analysing relations between various kinds of minds and the fun space is one example of an extension of the traditional human-centric space of research, and this is what intellectology is about. However, the field of intellectology is still in its early stages and “ is an entire area of exploration that is wide open at the moment”.

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