Sunday, March 19, 2023

Hard to define concepts

 Even cognitive scientists are not in agreement about what constitutes things like consciousness. As we teach A.s.a. H. language we can see what conceptual structures the various words are labeling.* For example, we find, approximately:

conscious = (sense, think, health)

alive = (sense, act)

self = (sense, think, act, health)

where sense, think, act, and health are, in turn, defined roughly** as described in my blogs of 1 October 2015 and 21 July 2016.

* But one must recall that A.s.a. H. has a dynamic memory so individual memories/concepts can change somewhat as a result of new experiences. See my blog of 1 January 2023. 

** Different experiments have involved various robots having different sensors and servos, etc so these concepts can vary accordingly.

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