Ordet »symbol« har rod i det græske symballein, hvor sym betyder »sammen« og ballein »kaste« eller »føje« altså »sammenføje«. 1 Herudfra kan ordet tillægges en videre betydning, som skal tages op denne artikel: At føje adskilte sammen, så fuldt ud virkelige bliver nærværende et udtryk. livsverdenen vil der ofte mangle intenst ægte virkelighedsnærvær. Tingene, menneskene, andre levende væsener; ...

We investigate an interactive teaching scenario, where a human teaches a robot symbols which abstract the geometric properties of objects. There are multiple motivations for this scenario: First, state-of-the-art methods for relational reinforcement learning demonstrate that we can learn and employ strongly generalizing abstract models with great success for goal-directed object manipulation. H...

Where does meaning enter the picture in artificial intelligence? How can we say that a machine possesses understanding? Where, and how, does such understanding happen? These are among the deepest and hardest questions faced by the field of artificial intelligence, which, as many claim, has not yielded much about them so far. Consider, for instance, that most current research in AI can be roughl...