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Keywords:: artificial intelligence; Turing Test; Reverse Turing Test; function; structure; operator

Abstract:: Till now，computer simulation of brain has made so many wonderful achievements. Throughreviewing these achievements，this paper is intended to question the criteria of computer simulation or artificialintelligence（ i.e. the logical meaning of Turing Test），and to argue that computer simulation of mind mayfollow a wrong approach to the understanding of human mind. Through a“ Reverse Turing Test”，it is foundthat computer and man calculate with different strategies. The computer takes the arithmetic-based calculationand man the operator-based strategy. On the ontological level，we define the arithmetic-based calculation asstructural calculation and operator-based calculation as functional calculation. If computer wants to simulatehuman mind successfully，it should use the functional calculation strategy. The functional calculation has threefeatures：first，giving the function logical precedence over the structure，i.e. defining structure with function；second，the operator of functional calculation containing the meanings of both time and space simultaneously；third，functional calculation dealing with the task characterized by continuity rather than discreteness.