Abstract:

It is accepted that human sensors have the abilities of reflecting and recording the information only concerning the form and quantity of external stimuli, whereas the process of intelligent cognition and decision-making in brain should depend not only on the formal information but on the content and value information. A question is thus raised: where and how is the formal information conversed to content and value information? This is one of the kernel questions in intelligence science. An attempt is proposed here to apply the comprehensive information theory to explore the secret of the conversion, thereafter propose a preliminary hypothesis on the mechanism of the conversion that may be named as the theory of information content understanding.

Key words: form, content, value, goal, content understanding