This paper discusses how a behavior-based robot can construct a "symbolic process" that accounts for its deliberative thinking processes using models of the environment. The paper focuses on two essential problems; one is the symbol grounding problem and the other is how the internal symbolic processes can be situated with respect to the behavioral contexts. We investigate these problems by app...

In human-robot interaction (HRI) it is essential that the robot interprets and reacts to a human’s utterances in a manner that reflects their intended meaning. In this paper we present a collection of novel techniques that allow a robot to interpret and execute spoken commands describing manipulation goals involving qualitative spatial constraints (e.g. “put the red ball near the blue cube”). T...

Despite the surprising power of many modern AI systems that often learn their own representations, there is significant discontent about inscrutability and attendant problems in ability to interact with humans. While alternatives such as neuro-symbolic approaches have been proposed, a lack consensus on what they are about. There two independent motivations (i) symbols lingua franca for human-AI...

This paper investigates social intelligence from a sociological perspective. Starting from social interaction and the problem of "double contingency" it shows how "generalized symbolic media of interaction" facilitate coordination processes in modern human societies. It advocates the concept of media as a source of fruitful inspiration for the design of socially intelligent agents and artificia...

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We argue for "hyper"-logicism, the view, hitherto unarticulated, that AI can succeed in creating a genuine robot agent by building a symbol system of the appropriate sort which has no sub-symbolic interaction whatsoever with the external world.

this article reviews the ancient symbolic world, shia and modernity believes in iranian’s mind which are historical link between ancient symbolic world and shie. since the late nineteenth century with the modernization, for exampel civilization, constitutional movement and palavi government, gap created in iranians mind. dispite this gap, iranians mind have symbolic characteristics and are not ...

In symbolic interaction, a traditional yet unfortunate and unnecessary distinction has been made between basic and applied research. The argument has been made that basic research is intended to generate new knowledge, whereas applied research is intended to apply knowledge to the solution of practical (social and organizational) problems. I will argue that the distinction between basic and app...

Our everyday actions are often performed in the context of a social interaction. We previously showed that, in adults, selecting an action on the basis of either social or symbolic cues was associated with activations in the fronto-parietal cognitive control network, whereas the presence and use of social versus symbolic cues was in addition associated with activations in the temporal and media...