Mechanism approach to a unified theory of artificial intelligence

Structuralism, functionalism as well as behaviorism are the major approaches to the artificial intelligence (AI) research in the history till the present time. All the three approaches have made great progress so far. On the other hand, however, all the three are separated from each other and also lack of mutual complementation. An attempt was thus made in the paper to propose a new approach to the AI research, the mechanism approach that tries to explore the mechanism of intelligence formation. As results, the three approaches are found to be happily unified based on the mechanism approach. A framework would be reported on the mechanism approach and the unification of the existed AI approaches.