| Title |
The dilemma of the symbols: analogies between philosophy, biology and artificial life
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|---|---|
| Published in |
SpringerPlus, October 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/2193-1801-2-495 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Salvatore Spadaro |
| Abstract |
This article analyzes some analogies going from Artificial Life questions about the symbol-matter connection to Artificial Intelligence questions about symbol-grounding. It focuses on the notion of the interpretability of syntax and how the symbols are integrated in a unity ("binding problem"). Utilizing the DNA code as a model, this paper discusses how syntactic features could be defined as high-grade characteristics of the non syntactic relations in a material-dynamic structure, by using an emergentist approach. This topic furnishes the ground for a confutation of J. Searle's statement that syntax is observer-relative, as he wrote in his book "Mind: A Brief Introduction". Moreover the evolving discussion also modifies the classic symbol-processing doctrine in the mind which Searle attacks as a strong AL argument, that life could be implemented in a computational mode. Lastly, this paper furnishes a new way of support for the autonomous systems thesis in Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence, using, inter alia, the "adaptive resonance theory" (ART). |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 33% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 1 | 11% |
| Other | 1 | 11% |
| Researcher | 1 | 11% |
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| Neuroscience | 2 | 22% |
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