Abstract

This paper briefly describes connectionism and explains that the essence of artificial neural networks is nonlinear regression. The integration of connectionism and symbolicism is studied in order to solve their defects. This paper presents a new paradigm called Embodied AI (EAI) which is an integration of connectionism and symbolicism through imaginations. EAI insists that symbolic processings should consist of artificial neural networks trained for bodily movements. Imaginations need bodies. Robots can realize imaginations, and so can realize EAI. Current computers do not have bodies, and so cannot realize imaginations. Since the main linguistic aspects of imaginations are metaphors, EAI is realized as Metaphor Based AI (MBAI) in the current computers.