It's well written nonsense. There is nothing in that paragraph on semiosis which actually says something that is relevant to AGI. Now someone might criticize much of what you or I might say the same way. But that is irrelevant. Read the paragraph a little more carefully. Can you find anything in it, other than Peirce's basic idea of the sign, that we might actually use? Here, look at these sentences:
"For humans, semiosis is an aspect of the wider systems of social interaction in which information is exchanged. It can result in particular types of social encounter, but the process itself can be constrained by social conventions <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_%28norm%29> such as propriety, privacy, and disclosure." It starts by mentioning semoisis but it really is about the wider systems of social interactions. If you were to ask how the wider systems of social conventions such as propriety, privacy, and disclosure affects language I would doubt if it would lead to anything but it would be a whole lot more substantial then talking about semoisis. It's nonsense writing. Look, I thought I had a great insight about conceptual structural integration the other day and one day I might be able to do something with it. But right now it is too plain because it is just about trying to figure out how we talk about things. So I have a good start on an idea but I don't have anything about how an effective structural complex might be chosen out of all the possibilities that could be considered. So I don't have a compelling conjecture about how we might cut through the complications and use structural integration to create AGI. But although my idea about conceptual structural integration is only at the most primitive level of thought right now, the paragraph on semiosis that you mentioned doesn't even get that far. Perhaps I am only able to see it from my narrow vantage of my interest in AGI, but everything I have ever read about semiosis looks a lot like fluff to me. Jim ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
