First, the traditional society. A traditional society is one whose structure is developed within limited production functions, based on pre-Newtonian science and technology, and on preNewtonian attitudes towards the physical world. Newton is here used as a symbol for that watershed in history when men came widely to believe that the external world was subject to a few knowable laws, and was sys...

We present our ongoing efforts to create a mobile manipulation database tool, a flexible multi-modal representation supporting persistent life-long adaptation for autonomous service robots in every-day environments. Its application to a prototypical domain illustrates how it provides symbol grounding to a reasoning system capable of learning new concepts, couples semantic planning with whole-bo...

INTRODUCTION The topic of representation acquisition, manipulation and use has been a major trend in Artificial Intelligence since its beginning and persists as an important matter in current research. Particularly, due to initial focus on development of symbolic systems, this topic is usually related to research in symbol grounding by artificial intelligent systems. Symbolic systems, as propos...

| The use of multiple transmitter and receiver antennas allows to transmit multiple signal substreams in parallel and hence to increase communication capacity. In order to distribute the multiple signal substreams over the MIMO channel, linear spacetime codes have been shown to be a convenient way to reach high capacity gains with a reasonable complexity. The space-time codes that have been int...

I analyze some of the attacks against the Physical Symbol System Hypothesis—attacks based on the presumed need for symbolgrounding and non-symbolic processing for intelligent behavior and on the supposed non-computational and “mindless” aspects of brains. The physical symbol system hypothesis (PSSH), first formulated by Newell and Simon in their Turing Award paper,1 states that “a physical symb...

The use of multiple transmitter and receiver antennas allows to transmit multiple signal streams in parallel and hence to increase communication capacity. To distribute the multiple signal streams over the MIMO channel, linear space-time codes have been shown to be a convenient way to reach high capacity gains with a reasonable complexity. The space-time codes that have been introduced so far a...

This paper deals with the question: what are the key requirements for a physical system to perform digital computation? Oftentimes, cognitive scientists are quick to employ the notion of computation simpliciter when asserting basically that cognitive activities are computational. They employ this notion as if there is a consensus on just what it takes for a physical system to compute. Some cogn...

This paper discusses the role of cultural anthropology in Cognitive Science. Culture is described as a very large pool of information passed along from generation to generation, composed of learned "programs" for action and understanding. These cultural programs differ in important ways from computer programs. Cultural programs tend to be unspecified and inexplicit rather than clearly stated al...

We are doing research on and development of a Lisp-based high level language machine with data-driven architecture, called the ETL datadriven Machine-3 (EM-3). The EM-3 is basically oriented to symbol manipulation and aims at bringing out the intrinsic parallelism in ordinary programs. The EM-3 is a new generation Lisp machine in the sense that the basic technology is on datadriven architecture...