blog  Luc Steels on creating artificial semiotic systems.

Sep 2011

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?".

blog  Mathematics and our body.

Oct 2010

"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 is to say, in the body.