François CholletVerified account

no! never! we humans are special and unpredictable!

Perhaps life is itself a "thought" in a similar way http://lifesratchet.com/ 

I'd say that adhering by core priors is more like preventing exception errors. People often have thoughts conflicting these 'inner priors', but these are subconsciously rejected. You don't realise you are adhering by a code unless you break it.

Have you ever tried to make a list of those primitives?

And you can use a language to create a new language. This goes on and on. Basic priors lead to new complex priors. There is perhaps a path to some kind of transcendence.

Would make for great interviews. - Do you have priors?

Boole wrote x^2=x (or equivalently x(x-1)=0) where x is a class, is the fundamental "law of thought".

I think working in AI is taking us much closer to understanding humans than ever before. I never realized writing code or building machines would put things in such perspective..

It's almost as if you were progressively moving from artificial intelligence towards cognitive science! ;-) (my alma mater discipline, where I always go back to improve my AI strategies for business)