True understanding and reasoning in AGI emerges through several fundamental mechanisms:

Causal Understanding

AGI achieves genuine comprehension by grasping cause-and-effect relationships rather than merely identifying statistical correlations[1]. This causal nature enables the system to understand why things happen, not just that they happen.

Contextual Processing

Deep Context Integration: The system processes information by considering the complete context, as the same actions can produce different effects in different situations[1].

Adaptive Framework: AGI builds understanding from the bottom up without predetermined models or human-imposed structures, allowing it to:

  • Form unbiased world representations
  • Maintain unlimited nuance in understanding
  • Adapt perfectly to changing contexts[1]

Cognitive Architecture

The system achieves true reasoning through:

  • Self-supervised learning from unlabeled data[2]
  • Transfer of knowledge across different domains[7]
  • Abstract concept manipulation beyond direct experiences[2]
  • Integration of multiple sensory inputs and real-time data analysis[6]

This architecture enables AGI to solve problems in their exact context while understanding both the derivation and correctness of solutions[1].

Sources
[1] [PDF] Proof of Achievement of the First Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) https://hal.science/hal-04397466/document
[2] Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) – Unaligned Newsletter https://www.unaligned.io/p/artificial-general-intelligence-agi
[3] Why Logic and Reasoning are Key to AGI – Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/agi/comments/1b72gjg/why_logic_and_reasoning_are_key_to_agi/
[4] Artificial general intelligence – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence
[5] Understanding Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) – qBotica https://qbotica.com/understanding-artificial-general-intelligence-agi-an-in-depth-overview/
[6] Examples of Artificial General Intellgence (AGI) – IBM https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/artificial-general-intelligence-examples
[7] What is artificial general intelligence (AGI)? – Google Cloud https://cloud.google.com/discover/what-is-artificial-general-intelligence
[8] How Do We Know We’ve Achieved AGI? – LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-do-we-know-weve-achieved-agi-nuri-cankaya-ivfec