Language and the game of life. Commentary on "Coordinating Perceptually Grounded Categories through Language. A Case Study for Colour." Luc Steels & Tony Belpaeme.
Language and the game of life. Commentary on "Coordinating Perceptually Grounded Categories through Language. A Case Study for Colour." Luc Steels & Tony Belpaeme.
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.
language, categories, learning, symbol grounding, evolution
Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b
2005
Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b
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.
Abstract
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.
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Published date: 2005
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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
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language, categories, learning, symbol grounding, evolution
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/260503
ISSN: 0140-525X
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