Embodiment vs. Memetics: Does Language Need a Physical Plant?

Embodiment vs. Memetics

Although the embodied approach to AI has lead to a large number of advances in the field, there has been no convincing demonstration of one of its earliest promises: that it would solve semantic grounding. In this article, I argue that although physical embodiment no doubt plays a major role in human intelligence, it may not be a necessary attribute for artificial agents capable of participatin...

Embodiment vs. Memetics: Is Building a Human getting Easier?

This heretical article suggests that while embodiment was key to evolving human culture, and clearly affects our thinking and word choice now (as do many things in our environment), our culture may have evolved to such a point that a purely memetic AI beast could pass the Turing test. Though making something just like a human would clearly require both embodiment and memetics, if we were forced...

Embodiment versus memetics

The term embodiment identifies a theory that meaning and semantics cannot be captured by abstract, logical systems, but are dependent on an agent’s experience derived from being situated in an environment. This theory has recently received a great deal of support in the cognitive science literature and is having significant impact in artificial intelligence. Memetics refers to the theory that k...

Sensory Perceptions in Language, Embodiment and Epistemology, Annalisa Baicchi, Rémi Digonnet, & Jodi L. Sandford (Eds.) (2018), Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-91276-9

Logic Circuit Design in Collaborative Learning

This paper describes a project that built a collaborative circuit board to explore various approaches to the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) notions of awareness and embodiment in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). The pedagogical aim of the collaborative circuit board was to allow open dialog amongst student peers when giving and receiving help. A brief overview of CS...