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Why do intelligence models leave motivation outside? The Recursive Intelligence Model argues that the components were typed wrongly, and that intelligence is learning ability, built from knowledge, performance and motivation feeding each other.

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Motivation as Allocation Policy and the Mis-Typed Components of Intelligence

The Recursive Intelligence Model (RIM)

Intelligence models leave motivation outside because they type every component as a capacity; RIM retypes them, with motivation as the policy that allocates learning.

2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20125095 · Read (Zenodo)

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Formalization

Toward a Mathematical Formalization of the Recursive Intelligence Model

A Recommended Approach

How to make the recursive interaction of knowledge, performance and motivation mathematically precise.

2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22133501 · Read (Zenodo)

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