- Title Pages
- Preface
- List of Contributors
-
Chapter 1 Framing the debate -
Chapter 2 The limits of covariation -
Chapter 3 Body and symbol in AutoTutor: Conversations that are responsive to the learners' cognitive and emotional states -
Chapter 4 Symbolism, embodied cognition, and the broader debate -
Chapter 5 What brain imaging can tell us about embodied meaning -
Chapter 6 Grounding language in the brain -
Chapter 7 Symbols and embodiment from the perspective of a neural modeller -
Chapter 8 Symbol systems and perceptual representations -
Chapter 9 Experiential traces and mental simulations in language comprehension -
Chapter 10 Defining embodiment in understanding -
Chapter 11 A mechanistic model of three facets of meaning -
Chapter 12 The symbol grounding problem has been solved, so what's next? -
Chapter 13 Language and simulation in conceptual processing -
Chapter 14 Levels of embodied meaning: From pointing to counterfactuals -
Chapter 15 Language comprehension is both embodied and symbolic -
Chapter 16 A well grounded education: The role of perception in science and mathematics -
Chapter 17 Mending or abandoning cognitivism? -
Chapter 18 An embodied cognition perspective on symbols, gesture, and grounding instruction -
Chapter 19 Reflecting on the debate - Author Index
- Subject Index
- Plates
The symbol grounding problem has been solved, so what's next?
The symbol grounding problem has been solved, so what's next?
- Chapter:
- (p.223) Chapter 12 The symbol grounding problem has been solved, so what's next?
- Source:
- Symbols and Embodiment
- Author(s):
Luc Steels
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter briefly discusses the issues of symbols, meanings, and embodiment. It explains the solution to the symbol grounding problem. It illustrates the ingredients that are employed in the experiments about language emergence using a specific example of a color guessing game. It argues that these experiments show that there is an effective solution to the symbol grounding problem. The objective test for this claim is in the increased success of agents in the language games.
Keywords: symbols, meanings, embodiment, symbol grounding problem, color guessing game, language emergence
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- List of Contributors
-
Chapter 1 Framing the debate -
Chapter 2 The limits of covariation -
Chapter 3 Body and symbol in AutoTutor: Conversations that are responsive to the learners' cognitive and emotional states -
Chapter 4 Symbolism, embodied cognition, and the broader debate -
Chapter 5 What brain imaging can tell us about embodied meaning -
Chapter 6 Grounding language in the brain -
Chapter 7 Symbols and embodiment from the perspective of a neural modeller -
Chapter 8 Symbol systems and perceptual representations -
Chapter 9 Experiential traces and mental simulations in language comprehension -
Chapter 10 Defining embodiment in understanding -
Chapter 11 A mechanistic model of three facets of meaning -
Chapter 12 The symbol grounding problem has been solved, so what's next? -
Chapter 13 Language and simulation in conceptual processing -
Chapter 14 Levels of embodied meaning: From pointing to counterfactuals -
Chapter 15 Language comprehension is both embodied and symbolic -
Chapter 16 A well grounded education: The role of perception in science and mathematics -
Chapter 17 Mending or abandoning cognitivism? -
Chapter 18 An embodied cognition perspective on symbols, gesture, and grounding instruction -
Chapter 19 Reflecting on the debate - Author Index
- Subject Index
- Plates
