The symbol grounding problem

The paper presents a paradoxical feature of computational systems that suggests that computationalism cannot explain symbol grounding. If the mind is a digital computer, as computationalism claims, then it can be computing either over meaningful symbols ...

This paper presents the Cognitive Symbol Grounding framework for modeling language in neural networks and adaptive agent simulations. This approach is characterized by the hypothesis that symbols are directly grounded into the agents' own categorical ...

This article is the second step in our research into the Symbol Grounding Problem (SGP). In a previous work, we defined the main condition that must be satisfied by any strategy in order to provide a valid solution to the SGP, namely the zero ...