음양오행설의 인공지능적 '만능 해석' 원리에 대한 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to enhance the understanding of the Yīnyángwǔxíng(陰陽五行) Theory, in East Asia by considering the background and principles of the Yīnyángwǔxíng Theory, which had functioned like an all-round key to solve all questions in ancient China, and played a similar role to today's artificial intelligence(AI). As a result of examining the contents and characteristics of the Wǔxíng(五行) category theory, there are three main reasons why the Yīnyángwǔxíng Theory can have such a ‘universal analysis function’. First, due to the relative categorization criteria of the Wǔxíng theory, it was possible to include a lot of categorization objects, so a lot of empirical knowledge accumulated up to the Han Dynasty(漢代) could be included in the system of this theory. Second, as the 72-day equal allocation plan was adopted in Han University, it was generalized so that the time of Yīnyáng can be applied to various types of cycle times without being tied to the four seasons of a year. Third, by combining the Yīnyáng of temporality with the Wǔxíng of spatiality, a complex time and space were created, and although it is in a primitive form, a kind of time and space system was formed so that more complex events and changes in the world could be interpreted by the Wǔxíng theory. The significance of this study was to understand the differences in East and West category theories and their advantages and disadvantages as a result of analyzing the Yīnyángwǔxíng theory by tracking why it became possible, focusing on the fact that it has similar characteristics to modern AI. Through this, it was found that the loose category standard of the Wǔxíng theory, which has been criticized as only an ambiguous category theory, was a prerequisite for broad category classification. Due to its many categorization, the Yīnyángwǔxíng theory has come to play the same role as ancient AI.