A semiotic perspective on the development of (artificial)consciousness
Year: 1995
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In this essay I will attempt to position the development ofconsciousness within a semiotic perspective. I have drawn myinspiration mainly from Peircean semiotics but also from work in thefield of neurobiology by Gerald Edelman, and in systemic functionallinguistics by Michael Halliday. My reasons for doing this at aconference convened specifically to discuss issues of basic andapplied research related to Artificial Intelligence is because it isprecisely the interactive (and thus also intersubjective) nature ofthe evolutionary development of consciousness as intentionality inhuman beings that seems one of the most difficult and most oftensubverted aspects of human experience for experts working withmodelling systems addressing such problems as natural languageprocessing, development of inferencing and knowledge systems,interface design and indeed, advanced human-computer interaction ingeneral. Possibly this paper will provide some food for thought, andopen up for useful cross-disciplinary discussions here, and in thelonger term, not only with the community of researchers working onmore technologically oriented parts of Norwegian AI research, butalso the humanities and natural sciences.
Author: Patrick John Coppock
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W184889348