Language and the game of life. Commentary on "Coordinating Perceptually Grounded Categories through Language. A Case Study for Colour." Luc Steels & Tony Belpaeme.

Harnad, Stevan (2005) Language and the game of life. Commentary on "Coordinating Perceptually Grounded Categories through Language. A Case Study for Colour." Luc Steels & Tony Belpaeme. Behavioral and Brain Sciences

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Steels & Belpaeme's simulations contain all the right components, but they are put together wrongly. Color categories are unrepresentative of categories in general and language is not merely naming. Language evolved because it provided a powerful new way to acquire categories (through instruction, rather than just the old way of other species, through trial-and-error experience). It did not evolve so that multiple agents looking at the same objects could let one another know which of the objects they had in mind, co-coining names for them on the fly.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Commentary On: "Coordinating Perceptually Grounded Categories through Language. A Case Study for Colour." Luc Steels and Tony Belpaeme. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Steels-09262002/Referees/Steels.pdf
Keywords:	language, categories, learning, symbol grounding, evolution,
Divisions:	Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Web & Internet Science
Item ID:	260503
Date Deposited:	14 Feb 2005
Last Modified:	02 Mar 2012 01:25
Contributors:	Harnad, Stevan (Author)
Date:	2005
Additional Information:	Commentary On: "Coordinating Perceptually Grounded Categories through Language. A Case Study for Colour." Luc Steels and Tony Belpaeme. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Steels-09262002/Referees/Steels.pdf
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Further Information:	Google Scholar
URI:	http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/260503

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