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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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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
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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Related: Consciousness (motivation in RIM is grounded in the Four-Model Theory)