The paper gives an overall discussion on problems in Chinese natural speech generation. We considered not only how to convert text into speech but also how to generate the necessary text in text-tospeech conversi0n.A Chinese Bi-directional Grammar is developed to suit for Chinese Language understanding and generation. The system gets the right text and generates speech which have good quality i...

Descartes’s Zombie: Bodies physically identical to ours could lack consciousness. Huxley’s Explanatory Gap: There can be no explanation of how states of consciousness arise from interaction among a collection of physical things. Putnam’s Swarm of Bees: A swarm of bees could not itself be conscious. Block’s Miniature Men in the Head: A collection of tiny men realizing the same functional states ...

China, one of the world’s oldest civilisations and now routinely cited as the world’s second largest economy, has declared its ambition to rejuvenate and prosper under the government of President Xi Jinping. Since the slogan 'Chinese Dream' was promulgated in 2012, Chinese scholars have been made aware of a new impetus in the promotion of Chinese language and culture. However, globalisation has...

Corporate culture, as a management theory and method, emerged as an important component of organizational success in the late twentieth century. Korea’s unique style of corporate culture is a critical element to its economic success. Both China and Korea still have a strong influence of Confucianism on everyday life; Confucianism is the most dominating component in both countries’ cultures. The...

Although it is well known that Schopenhauer claimed that Buddhism closely reflected his own philosophy, this claim was largely ignored until the mid-late Twentieth century. Most commentators on Schopenhauer (with some recent exceptions) since then have mentioned his Buddhist affinities but have been quite broad and general in their treatment. I feel that any general comparison of Schopenhauer’s...

In this second volume of Professor Needham's proposed eight-volume treatise on Chinese science and civilization, he describes in extensive and loving detail the philosophical background against which the specific sciences in China developed. In the first part, Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism and Legalism are analyzed with special attention being paid to the implications of these philosophies for w...

This paper treats the philosophy of John R. Searle in his article "Minds,Brains, and Programs". It shows, using Searle's Chinese room argument (CR), thatwhat Searle calls strong artificial intelligence (AI), the thesis that minds are tobrains as computer software is to computer hardware, is not only false, but alsothat it must be false. The CR does this by arguing in effect that...

Ki (in Japanese) or Qi (in Chinese) is the key concept in Eastern medicine, Eastern philosophy, as well as in martial arts. We explain the philosophical and psychological background of Ki. We emphasize that the unique aspects of Eastern philosophy are 'non-linearity' and 'holistic' approach. We then present physics aspect of Ki. Our experiments demonstrated that a 'Ki-beam' carries 'entropy' (o...

The article aims at presenting an overview of the main concepts in philosophical thought Zhang Shenfu, one leading intellectuals from Republican China (1912–1949). study sets out a brief summary Zhang’s intellectual achievements, and proceeds by offering more concise picture influences, developmental stages finally also central ideas thought. By general view on concrete confluences dissonances ...