Principles of information conversions — An integrated theory of information, knowledge, and intelligence

It is the aim to report in the paper a new result, namely Principles of Information Conversions, that include the following components: the establishment of comprehensive theory of information which overcomes the fundamental limitations in information theory and can then be applied to all areas of information processes; the sum up of the laws of knowledge ecology, in which the law of external ecology of knowledge, i.e., the information conversions (information conversed to knowledge and further to intelligence), has been understood as the common mechanism of intelligence formation; the setting up of mechanism approach to artificial intelligence (AI), which successfully unifies the three major AI approaches (structuralism, functionalism and behaviorism); the defining of the advanced Intelligence model which is featured specifically by the trinity of consciousness-emotion-intelligence; and the proving that the advanced intelligence can be based on the various forms of information conversions under the related conditions and guided by respective goals. It is concluded that the principles of information conversions can be shown as an integrated theory of information, knowledge and intelligence, which is of great significance.