> On this issue, we can distinguish 4 approaches: > > (1) let symbols get their meaning through "interpretation" (provided in > another language) --- this is the approach used in traditional > symbolic AI. > > (2) let symbols get their meaning by grounding on textual experience --- > this is what I and Kevin suggested. > > (3) let symbols get their meaning by grounding on simplified perceptual > experience --- this is what Ben and Shane suggested. > > (4) let symbols get their meaning by grounding on human-level perceptual > experience --- this is what Brooks (the robotics researcher at MIT) and > Harnad (who raised the "symbol grounding" issue in the first place) > proposed.
In Novamente, we plan to start with 3 but to fairly quickly move to a combination of 3 and 2 I think that Peter Voss plans to stay with 3 alone for a longer period... -- Ben ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
