Sublime

My basic approach to understanding prodigies is the same as it is for understanding any expert performer. I ask two simple questions: What is the exact nature of the ability? and, What sorts of training made it possible? In thirty years of looking, I have never found an ability that could not be explained by answering these two questions.

Sophia is a combination of nous, which has a sense of discernment and epistēmē, which in the modern day would be science: knowledge that is teachable and built through logic.

Start by developing systems that can represent the core frameworks of human knowledge: time, space, causality, basic knowledge of physical objects and their interactions, basic knowledge of humans and their interactions. Embed these in an architecture that can be freely extended to every kind of knowledge, keeping always in mind the central tenets

Sophia

The understanding of learning must be genetic. It must refer to the genesis of knowledge. What an individual can learn, and how he learns it, depends on what models he has available. This raises, recursively, the question of how he learned these models. Thus the “laws of learning” must be about how intellectual structures grow out of one another an

László’s has plenty of holes that keep it from becoming a model of scientific purity. There was no control group, for starters. All three of the Polgár sisters received the same education. There was no fourth sister who went to school the normal way and missed László’s special training. There was no randomization. László didn’t adopt a random child