Crucial factors in the origins of word-meaning
Crucial factors in the origins of word-meaning
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词义起源的关键因素
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2000
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J. V. Looveren
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L. Steels;F. Kaplan;A. McIntyre;J. V. Looveren
我们一直在进行大规模的人工机器人代理的公共实验，以探索什么样的必要和充分的先决条件是词义对通过自组织过程中的代理人口自主演变。我们关注的不是语言为什么进化的问题，而是如何进化的问题。一旦语言产生，就有许多很好的理由使用它;例如，为了建立和维持群体的连贯性，为了传播文化知识，如工具的使用，等等。但这些理由只能解释为什么言语行为被强化，它不能解释这种言语行为如何出现或复杂化。我们的假设是，当代理人从事特定的互动行为，这反过来又需要特定的认知结构，他们自动到达一个语言系统。这种互动行为应该是合作行为的自然产物（如果不是这样，这种行为就不太可能出现），认知结构应该足够简单，也可以进化为其他目的（预适应）。因此，我们的主要任务是准确地识别这种行为是什么，以及它需要什么样的认知结构。
We have been conducting large-scale public experiments with artificial robotic agents to explore what the necessary and sufficient prerequisites are for word-meaning pairs to evolve autonomously in a population of agents through a self-organized process. We focus not so much on the question of why language has evolved but rather on how. There are many good reasons to use language once it has come into existence; for example, for establishing and maintaining group coherence, for transmission of cultural knowledge like tool use, etc. But these reasons only explain why verbal behavior is reinforced, it does not explain how this verbal behavior might emerge or complexify. Our hypothesis is that when agents engage in particular interactive behaviors which in turn require specific cognitive structures, they automatically arrive at a language system. This interactive behavior should be a natural outgrowth of cooperative behavior (if this were not the case, the behavior would be unlikely to emerge), and the cognitive structures should be simple enough to have evolved for other purposes as well (preadaptation). Our main task is therefore to identify precisely what this behavior is and what cognitive structures are required for it.