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TES opens future in many directions and I. Shagaev described them well. Significant steps toward TES have been already made.

1. Evolution is accumulation of knowledge.

what is knowledge? - it is a collection of representations inside the system about the outside world, and self.

The best evolving system is a human being, more specifically - our brain-mind. And the theory of TES and knowledge accumulation have started with the theory of mind and cognition.

Having adequate representations is required for survival, therefore we are driven toward knowledge accumulation and improvement by the knowledge instinct, KI (or primary drive).

2. Mathematical model of evolution of the mind.

Mathematical models of KI (learning, thinking, mind...) have been attempted since the 1950s. A fundamental difficulty has been computational complexity, CC. It has been related to the Gödel difficulties of logic. This difficulty has been recently overcame by dynamic logic DL.

DL is a process logic. DL processes are "from vague to crisp," from vague representations, plans, etc. to crisp ones. DL explains how classical logic appears in the mind from vague and uncertain brain. DL overcame CC and made possible solving problems that have been unsolvable for decades, including modeling of the mind, and many engineering problems.

3. Modeling of the mind : theory confirmed by experiments

-perception and cognition

-emotions

-hierarchy of perception, cognition, and emotions

-including these mechanisms at the top of the hierarchy: beauty, sublime, meaning

-the beautiful are emotions experienced when a step is made toward the highest meaning (the meaning of life)

-cognitive functions of aesthetic emotions

-music, its cognitive functions, its origin and evolution

-language, its difference from cognition

-language and cognition interaction, their functions in thinking

-the role of conscious and unconscious in thinking

These and other mechanisms of the mind have been mathematically modeled, a number of unexpected predictions have been made. Many of these predictions have been confirmed in experiments.

4. Engineering applications

The theory described above has been applied to many areas of engineering. Dozens of problems unsolvable for decades have been solved.

5. KI and evolution

The idea of KI and its mathematical model, DL, is being extended toward biological evolution from modeling DNA and protein mechanisms to modeling societies and cultures, it would take many pages just to list these new areas of research and engineering being now developed.

6. Publications.

-more than 500 publications

-journal "Physics of Life Reviews" IF = 9.5, Thompson Reuter rating #4 in the world (in biophysics)

-A number of open source publications, search for L. Perlovsky.