Over the last decade, there has been an increasing body of work that explores whether
sensory and motor information is a necessary part of semantic representation and …

This article reviews eight proposed strategies for solving the symbol grounding problem
(SGP), which was given its classic formulation in Harnad. After a concise introduction, the …

Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it
develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective …

Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. PI
is the philosophical field concerned with (1) the critical investigation of the conceptual nature …

Linguists tend to view language in terms of forms and their use. For historical reasons,
speaking and listening are often ascribed to knowledge of a language system. Language …

In the nineteen eighties, a lot of ink was spent on the question of symbol grounding, largely
triggered by Searle's Chinese Room story (Searle, 1980). Searle's article had the advantage …

One of the field in which models of abstraction have been proposed is Artificial Intelligence
(AI). This chapter has two parts: one presents an overview of the formal models, either …

Constructive studies on symbol emergence systems seek to investigate computational
models that can better explain human language evolution, the creation of symbol systems …

Embodied control requires agents to leverage multi-modal pre-training to quickly learn how
to act in new environments, where video demonstrations contain visual and motion details …

Humans use signs, eg, sentences in a spoken language, for communication and thought.
Hence, symbol systems like language are crucial for our communication with other agents …