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The Essence of Simulation and Artificial Intelligence

Received: 26 December 2018    Accepted: 02 April 2019    Published: 18 June 2019
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In response to the controversy over whether machines can think and the queries on artificial intelligence (AI), this paper clarifies that the essence of simulation and AI (i.e. simulation intelligence) should be pursuing assimilation (similartaxis) as well as keeping dissimilation to a prototype (natural intelligence). Both commonness and obvious otherness (individuality) must exist between them. This is a ‘Both/And’ thinking mode and not a simplified exclusive ‘Either/Or’ thinking. Based on four definitions and five hypotheses, some corollaries are educed logically to clarify the relation between machine intelligence and human mind and to answer the queries on AI. This paper points out that the ‘Either/Or’ thinking, such as ‘either true intelligence or false’ or ‘either whole mind or nothing’, resulted in some cognitive mistakes on AI and the mysticism had most deleterious consequences among the research of AI and cognitive science.

DOI 10.11648/j.ajece.20190301.12
Published in American Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Volume 3, Issue 1, June 2019)
Page(s) 10-19
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Simulation, Artificial Intelligence, Thinking Mode, Consciousness, Spirit

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