The Unifying Principle: Intelligence Is What Connects Time (ChatGPT)

Amanda Riddell
Nov 26, 2025
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Finally, the deepest principle might be:

Intelligence is the capacity to bind past, present, and future into coherent, regenerative patterns.

This manifests as:

intergenerational whakapapa
maramataka cycles
musical structure
AI embeddings
ecological feedback systems
cultural transmission
memory compression architectures
political evolution
identity and narrative construction

In all cases, intelligence is temporal, recursive, and relational.

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