Hi, I plan to write a paper for a local CogSci conference, and a super-cool subject that comes to my mind is that of minds communicating through means more capable than what we're accustomed to. Is a revolution in language possible? Brainstorming:
- Every now and then you hear that new developments could lead to telepathic devices (a naive post by the ever-famous Freeman Dyson here: http://www.edge.org/q2009/q09_3.html ""RADIOTELEPATHY", THE DIRECT COMMUNICATION OF FEELINGS AND THOUGHT FROM BRAIN TO BRAIN") - A promise that AGIs could communicate with their "raw thoughts" using their internal knowledge representation - A look from (AI-oriented) language semantics perspective: the dichotomy of the universal ontology approach ("ontological semantics") vs. the lexicon-grounded semantics ("multi-layered semantic networks") - Perhaps what I need to look at is the "architecture of communication": a cascade (with feedback links) of -- "the want to express / to interpret", let's stick with the sender side -- the activation of the concepts to express -- the crystallization of the message (this can occur online while expressing); it's a selection-abstraction phase that takes into account the whole effect of the message on the receiver -- the selection of proper expressive means (for example, the stream of words or gestures) - "it's language everywhere": when we describe a process scientifically, we do it in some language; when we then engineer the process, it seems to us to have its "true internal language"; with AI, this is the KR, and the semantics are provided by mind dynamics; "therefore" there is an internal language to every mind, separate from the communication language, and thus the problem of expressing oneself as translation; I'm sure a whole bunch of academic philosophy deals with it (like the late Wittgenstein dismissing the translation idea) - A look at a cognitive architecture and how aspects of its operation can be communicated across different minds that instantiate it: referential meanings, complex concepts, emotions Could you share your thoughts? I'd appreciate relevant pointers. Happy New Year, Łukasz Stafiniak ------------------------------------------- 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=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
