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style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: STXingkai;" lang="EN-US"><small>(Message
from <b>Zhao Chuan</b>, excerpts from </small></span><span
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Preface </small></span><span
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on Intelligence Science)</small></span><br>
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THE FRONTIERS OF INTELLIGENCE SCIENCE<o:p></o:p></span></b></big></p>
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<span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style=""></span></span> Intelligence
Science is a new
science. It is the scientific spirit applied to thought and mental
processes
and phenomena; it is an emergent multidisciplinary direction of
research. At
the same time, it represents a long-standing tradition in oriental
thought. After
the success of science in grasping the rules of the natural world, and
despite many
false starts, science has finally begun to focus on intelligence. Hence
East
and West should meet here, Science and Art should meet here, and it is
from here that the new scientific
paradigm and a new paradigm for civilization should evolve. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><big>In ancient times, human beings faced the
challenges of
existence. After a long period of evolution, it is the time to go from
a survival
mode - how to live better - and now face
what A. Feln said: to think better is the challenge to our integrity.
“Know yourself” was the
inscription in the temple of Apollo. It can and
should be taken to heart now more than in any other age. Intelligence
Science has
been born at the right moment.</big></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><big>Despite
all their problems, all sciences are becoming richer and more
successful, above
all technological disciplines. The Internet is the ‘roof’ over the
Global Village in which
this has taken place. Workers in the sciences and the humanities are
already
exchanging information about their work and also their feelings about
their work. Intelligence
Science emerges naturally. </big></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><big>We need to continuously try to
face and answer honestly the question: how can the human factor be
recognized
and integrated naturally into science? Science needs rethinking,
humanity needs
rethinking, the West and the East need rethinking, so that we can
benefit from
the richness of human nature and bear the
complexity of human thought. Integration is not easy, but we must do
it. If all
civilizations develop, reach their limits and then fade, contending
among
themselves, finally they must fail and destroy each other.
Alternatively, the
Eastern and Western civilizations of today could interact more
dynamically
observing, understanding and checking each other to form a ‘new’
civilization
that could go farther. Which alternative will we choose? Intelligence
Science
burdens itself with this mission.</big></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><big>From
Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Intelligence Science (IS) is a
strategic transformation,
a major contribution to science. Led by the Chinese Association for
Artificial Intelligence ( CAAI), Intelligence Science
was born in October, 2003. Since the first one created in Peking
University,
in just the last decade, 27 universities have set up a Department of
Intelligence
Science and Technology, and the number should increase. We can say that
IS has
now created a new frontier of knowledge, going from theory to practice
and to education. But our
task, the task of this book, is to describe and participate in the
research and
development of this still-forming frontier. Poincaré said: “if we can
occasionally enjoy relative tranquility, it is
because of the tenacious struggle of our ancestors. If our vigor, our
vigilance
relax a moment, we will lose the fruits that our ancestors gained for
us. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><big>There
is a poem of Master Hong Yi that can describe this new science: “I come
for the
plant/ I leave the flower that has not bloomed yet,/it does not mean
this is
not a fine scene,/waiting for later generations.” Due to the
interactive
changes involving East and West I mentioned above, our civilization has
achieved a high degree of maturity in what is now a precious wealthy
and
peaceful age</big><big>. First we
should be thankful for the great fruits and wisdom which
human beings have gained through tenacious struggle that we have
arrived at
such a moment and can formulate such thoughts. Generation by
generation, the
development of science and civilization reaches out and transmits them
to us.
Such a great flower is just blooming now, and is in its most beautiful
period.
The end of the 20th Century is safe, the steps of the 21st Century are
smooth
and steady, and the great harmony and the great adventure of human
beings should
begin. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><big>“We
must know, we will know!” (Wir müssen wissen / Wir werden wissen) these
lines
are engraved in the gravestone of the mathematical King David, David
Hilbert.
We need to have the same confidence and will. We should remember the
same
warning of Lu Xun: “but if you want to have some rank in culture, you
have to
be tenacious.” At the same time there is the wisdom of the farmer’s
proverbs: “In
seeding the transplants in the paddy field, older and younger are both
needed”
and “when everybody adds fuel, the flames rise high.”. All persons who
are concerned
about civilization should optimistically make the effort together to
integrate,
to break through, to reach an age of a new quality. Such is my
invitation to
you: let us reappraise all of the
positive results of our civilization. Let us take this massive ‘seed’,
and make
it sprout and grow to achieve a higher level of civilization. To open
the
prelude, to face dawn, and with this new Intelligence Science create a
golden
age!<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><big>In
conclusion, I should explain here that my personal capacities are
limited; I am
pressed for time and ask for the comprehension of my readers. I am not
trying
to be self-deprecatory; this is just a brief expression of my inner
apprehensions and the heavy tension I am under as well as of the the
excitement
I feel at the same time.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><big>Zhao Chuan<br>
November,
2014<br>
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PS. The above is taken, with slight modifications, from my Preface to
the book on Intelligence Science that has recently appeared in Chinese.
Many thanks to the list for allowing me to discuss this theme, and many
thanks to all FISers for the great discussions we are having!<br>
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