Comments on: Straightforward vs. goal-oriented communication

By: Neotenic

Neotenic — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:10:21 +0000

My comment got cut by my phone. Continuing: Beyond Belief as well as Surfaces and Essences bring us a perspective on communication and how thoughts are concocted in the mind that leave little to no room for assumptions that the mind is a precise engine, that there is such a thing as a language of thought, or that communication could be fully (or 93%) not goal oriented.

By: Diego Caleiro

Diego Caleiro — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 22:32:08 +0000

There is a lot of literature on speech acts, including attempts to frame goal oriented communication as factual truth valued claims. See e.g. Beyond Belief. The assumption that communication without goal grounding is possible seems tenuous at best. To know what you mean,I need a model if your desires as much as I need your words. Furthermore, analogies may be sine qua non conditions for much of communication, as contended by Hofstadter latest book. Beyond belief

By: Specifying a human precisely (reprise) | Ordinary Ideas

Specifying a human precisely (reprise) | Ordinary Ideas — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:43:34 +0000

[…] I think that this more pessimistic assumption is more likely to be warranted if we are interested in using these concepts to define the goals of an agent, because I think that normal approaches to communication between agents may break down in this case. […]