Thinking abstractly and expressing concretely

Thinking abstractly and expressing concretely 

－Thinking pattern of AI( obtain abstract and logic)

Abstract: For thousands of years, human develop and work with deep abstract thinking to obtain perfect concepts and logic, law of thinking and the law of nature. And another significant thinking based on abstract thinking, the logic thinking, is benefiting the human to better and deeper understand the world. These two high-level thinking patterns are basic tools of doing science and technology thinking. Specifically, Human logic thinking derives from the human abstract thinking, even determined by the abstract thinking. And the deep understanding about the real world is also represented in logic, this is the result of critical concepts thinking of human, or the logic of the real world is reflected as the human logic thinking. Formal system captures the details of abstract and logic thinking of human and help the human do logic thinking clearly and concretely.

Thinking: abstractly and logically

Human live in a specific and concrete world, and human enjoy the specific and concrete information, such as picture, voice and action. And people is easily trapped into these content which fulfill the great animal demand of human. Living in this physical world with the variant, emotional interrupting and distraction, the difficulty of critical thinking makes few of us could keep long-term focus on performing abstract and logic thinking daily, giving up critical thinking is a normal state of human brain. So, 90% of normal human concepts are the first impressions. This leads the slow development of human. However, human is the special one with intelligence to add layers of perfect abstraction to this real world. This makes the world a meaningful one to live in.

Obviously, animal subconsciousness is not correct and is just the first step to form the concept, the real masterpiece of human thinking. The second step is thinking on the impression and doing the comparison, reflection, segregation. The third step is choosing the concerned information, the matter, sometimes, the same or unchangeable, and simplify it with a metaphor notation. These subtle steps are invisible but beyond the impression, also, not everyone can do them well. But human can learn these by reading and emulating others who do well. In short, human needs deep thinking on the raw impressions to choose and modify them and create the concepts.

Human needs concepts, abstraction and generalization, to deal with the complex. When human do the practical abstraction thinking which leads to the logic thinking and try to combine or dominate the subjective and intent conscious thinking with the logic thinking, people needs the help of formal and informal systems to model the thinking, and intently ignore the lots of chaotic information and keep mind clearly concentrating on one point, obtaining the essence and correctness of the concepts and logic even the truth. 

Concept, sometimes can be opinion, which is the production of abstracting thinking, matters significantly than first impression does. When human do the sensation, not abstract thinking just the impression or experience, on some static physical complex object or system, the most details realized would be hid by the subconsciousness, only the concerned, sometimes is the unchangeable, partial information of object is absorbed to create the mental imagination and concept. This subtle process is finally found by the human subjective and intent conscious thinking.

This is the secret, the law or tech or pattern, of abstract thinking of human which can be dig out and demystified from the brain by human himself with long-term deep inner thinking, maybe the mindful concluding, and express it into formal or informal system. Even, human use this tech to deal with and understand the complex, finally, to emulate the logic thinking of human based on the concepts.

The technology of abstracting is separation of concerning of human on objects to obtain the essence and nature, such as the separation of what and how and why. There are lots of ways to proceed the abstracting.

Human do long-term abstraction for compressing and sharing information, the concepts are just the result of thinking. But there is the gap between reality and the concepts which human created and conceived. Human need to hack the real objects directly and look beyond the recorded concepts. The essence and nature of objects determine the logic or relationship which locates among objects logically.

Expressing: mapping concepts into symbols systems 

Human have to use the specific and concrete voice and symbols as metaphors and tools to express and model the thinking and concepts, this is the intelligence of human thinking with tools, making the invisible visible. This also leads the disadvantage that the specific and concrete tech may obstruct the real understanding of abstract objects and lots of thinking should be adopted to obtain the reality beyond those specific human symbols and labels.   

One of the tools is formal language system which developed to help human flee from disordered impression and nature language, to record the tracks of abstract thinking and invoke the ordered abstract logic thinking. To some extent, formal language is just the systematic tricky metaphors to simulate the human thinking. This needs lots of daily and repeatedly practice to settle a habit of inspecting and inner reason observing and modifying the concepts--the ability of abstract logic thinking. 

Formal language describes and extends the details of abstract thinking, specifically, the concepts and their logical relationship. The strategy of abstract thinking includes the comparison, reflection, segregation and simplification and noted with metaphors, wherein formerly concrete details are left ambiguous, vague, or undefined. Formal language coupled with the formal logic which could be proceeded and reasoned by machine now.

Formal language is the most elegant system to express concepts as well as the relationship among them, including generic and special, the abstract and the concrete, the whole and the part. Using formal system to express the related concepts is very helpful to engage in a clear thinking.

Thinking pattern of AI: based on concepts 

The base of human thinking is concept which is the abstraction and generalization of concrete or abstract object. AI must learn the concepts, abstract objects, of the objects to do any kind of thinking, especially the logic thinking. 

Concluding:

In short, formal and informal language is just the expressing systematic symbols. With lots of practice, human can map the thinking--abstract concepts and logic--into the language directly and concretely.