Triadic Relationship of Intelligence, Information, and Complexity

This is a companion paper for the short paper published in the proceedings of the 1st International Online Conference of the Journal Philosophies, presenting the view that the multiple, diverse manifestations of human, artificial, and natural intelligence do not preclude a uniform characteristic of intelligence, which could be called meta-intelligence, and that this uniform characteristic can be found in the triadic relationship of intelligence, information, and complexity, in which intelligence is considered the capacity to overcome complexity of information. While the conference paper was focused on overcoming the view of a diversity of unrelated forms of intelligence through the lifting of the level of abstraction of the study, and with the use in its background of auxiliary concepts of information and its complexity, the present paper defends, but only indirectly, the same vision of meta-intelligence, but with a shift of the focus to the metaphysical study of a triadic conceptual framework with its relationship to free will, agency, causality, and interaction, and the necessary high level of generality for the concept of information. The arguments used in the conference paper for the conceptualization of intelligence are not repeated here. Instead, this paper provides comprehensive metaphysical and epistemological foundations for the study of the triad of intelligence, information, and complexity, which in the earlier paper were only fragmentary.