Visual Thought AGI Blueprint - Created By Derek Van Derven 2025

What Is Visual Thought AGI?

Visual Thought AGI is a blueprint for human-level general intelligence built on the idea that the mind thinks in dynamic, internally generated visual scenes.

Just as the human brain simulates imagined environments before taking action, this architecture relies on continuous visual cognition, spatial reasoning, and scenario modeling to understand and interact with the world.

Instead of relying on language-only token prediction, Visual Thought AGI builds a structured, multimodal model of reality.

It constructs internal visual scenes, updates them with new information, and evaluates possible outcomes in a way that resembles human mental imagery and prefrontal cortex reasoning.

This allows it to perform planning, problem-solving, counterfactual analysis, and creative synthesis at a level closer to human thought than existing systems.

Why This Architecture Matters

Today’s large language models are powerful but limited: they cannot consistently simulate physical causality, maintain stable mental models, or introspect about their own thinking.

Visual Thought AGI directly addresses these limitations by combining symbolic reasoning, generative scene imagination, and self-reflective meta-cognition into a unified system.

By grounding intelligence in visual world-modeling and internal simulation, this design provides the missing functional components needed for true artificial general intelligence.

It merges perception, memory, prediction, and agency into a cohesive cognitive architecture capable of general reasoning, adaptive behavior, and human-level understanding.

The Goal of the Blueprint

The Visual Thought AGI Blueprint offers researchers, developers, and policy leaders a clear, implementable framework for building safe, aligned, and human-like AGI systems.

It explains every major subsystem—from visual imagination to reflective thought—so that the field can move beyond narrow machine learning and into full artificial general intelligence.

This site serves as the official home for the AGI Blueprint. By making the concepts fully open and accessible, the goal is to accelerate transparent, safe AGI development for the benefit of all people.