The present invention pertains to autonomously constructing common sense and a general method of thinking from a series of input information, and autonomously generating, from natural language, a method for solving similar problems from input information pertaining to a series of problems and solutions. In the present invention, the relationship between information and recorded relevant information is analyzed as pertains to inputted information, the analyzed relationship is organized in a sentence structure and recorded, and information determined to be useful is autonomously recorded to construct a body of knowledge. Additionally, the inputted information is evaluated by collation with an internally constructed body of knowledge, and a process that corresponds to the evaluation result is autonomously executed. Additionally, some of the words included in information are generalized, a significant relationship between successively inputted units of information is extracted by enhancing the relationship between one set of patterns and another set of patterns corresponding to the information, and common sense and a general method of thinking are autonomously constructed from a series of input information. Furthermore, some of the words included in input information pertaining to a series of problems and solutions are generalized, and a method for solving similar problems is autonomously generated.
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