Interestingly, Helen Keller's story provides a compelling example of what it means for a symbol to go from ungrounded to grounded. Specifically, the moment at the water pump when she realized that the word "water" being spelled into her hand corresponded with her experience of water - that moment signified the transition from an ungrounded symbol to a grounded one. Until that moment those symbols were meaningless and they were nothing more than a boring game of rote repetition for HK the child. At that moment, her whole world changed and her development as a fully cognitive human being was underway in earnest. The symbols became far more than a game, they became tools for understanding, expression, and all the other things we do with language.
Terren --- On Sun, 9/28/08, David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [agi] universal logical form for natural language To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 5:23 AM On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 3:16 PM, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think I may be able to short-circuit the learning loop by using "minimal" grounding. The Helen Keller argument =) Actually, It's been my hunch for some time that the richness and importance of Hellen Keller's sensational environment is frequently grossly underestimated. The sensations of a deaf/blind person still include proprioception, vestibular senses, smell, touch, pressure, temperature, vibration, etc., easily enough rich sensory information to create an internal mental represenation of a continous external reality. ;-) -dave agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
