I’m not so sure that knowing primes tells you anything useful about cicadas, for the simple reason that prime numbers function just as well on planets that with or without cicadas. Because of this, learning about primes doesn’t inform your knowledge of whether or not cicadas are real by very much (in the best case).
I think this applies similarly to much of the middle part of your thesis, and I think the end kind of just puts your theoretical AI into already-existing “machine learning” territory (unless I’m misunderstanding something here).
I’m not so sure that knowing primes tells you anything useful about cicadas, for the simple reason that prime numbers function just as well on planets that with or without cicadas. Because of this, learning about primes doesn’t inform your knowledge of whether or not cicadas are real by very much (in the best case).
I think this applies similarly to much of the middle part of your thesis, and I think the end kind of just puts your theoretical AI into already-existing “machine learning” territory (unless I’m misunderstanding something here).