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- Luc Steels on creating artificial semiotic systems
In this post I’m just presenting an organized version of the notes I’ve taken after reading a beautiufl paper by Luc Steels, titled: “The Symbol Grounding Problem has been solved. So What’s Next?“. Who is Luc Steels? Steels is a Belgian scientist working in area of embodied cognition and robotics. The post is organized as […]
- Mathematics and our body
“Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being” [amazon link] is a recent book by cognitive scientists George Lakoff and Rafael Nuñez, in which they argue that the origin of our mathematical ideas (even the most abstract and immaterial) is to be found in the materiality of our everyday experience. That […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
