Social Fractal

Agüera y Arcas's picture of intelligence as nested mutual modeling at every scale. In the film: "We have the illusion of being singular, because we really are like a fractal of mutual predictors that are all kind of on the same team … There's no homunculus, there's no center. It's just a fractal cascade of mutually predictive models"; hence "Intelligence is fractal, meaning it's social within as well as without." The book states it as a summary thesis — "Intelligence is multifractal. Intelligences are made of smaller intelligences, and are defined by the predictive relationships among those smaller intelligences" — and asks whether brains are "societies" of neural circuits that evolved to model each other. The Noema essay names it "social fractal." Distinct from the journal's Recursive Modeling, which is about models reshaping what they model.