- Writer: @rmaruy.bsky.social
- Supervision: Tadahiro Taniguchi
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- Writer: @rmaruy.bsky.social
- Supervision: Tadahiro Taniguchi
- Design: Reira Endo, Masaya Shimizu
- Translation Support: Momoha Hirose
Thanks to all the people who gave us feedback!
✨ The Collective Predictive Coding hypothesis suggests symbol systems emerge through decentralized Bayesian inference among agents—social representation learning that may explain the origins of language and shared meaning.
Read more: www.symbol-emergence.net/post/a-prime...
✨ The Collective Predictive Coding hypothesis suggests symbol systems emerge through decentralized Bayesian inference among agents—social representation learning that may explain the origins of language and shared meaning.
Read more: www.symbol-emergence.net/post/a-prime...
🔮 Free energy principle has served as an integrating view that unifies perception, action, and learning as continuous prediction and error minimization. Representation learning must be constrained by symbol systems—but how?
🔮 Free energy principle has served as an integrating view that unifies perception, action, and learning as continuous prediction and error minimization. Representation learning must be constrained by symbol systems—but how?
📊 Probabilistic generative models
To answer these questions, SEST uses Bayesian frameworks to model how agents form categories, predict sensory data, and learn language by inferring latent variables behind observations.
📊 Probabilistic generative models
To answer these questions, SEST uses Bayesian frameworks to model how agents form categories, predict sensory data, and learn language by inferring latent variables behind observations.
🌐 Societal-level symbol emergence
How do bottom-up interactions self-organize into shared symbol systems, which then exert top-down influence on individual meaning-making via micro–macro loops?
🌐 Societal-level symbol emergence
How do bottom-up interactions self-organize into shared symbol systems, which then exert top-down influence on individual meaning-making via micro–macro loops?
🧠 Agent-level symbol emergence
How do individuals learn internal representations—latent concepts that tie sensory inputs to symbols—through embodied interaction, unsupervised learning, and Bayesian inference?
🧠 Agent-level symbol emergence
How do individuals learn internal representations—latent concepts that tie sensory inputs to symbols—through embodied interaction, unsupervised learning, and Bayesian inference?
🔄 From the classic “symbol grounding problem” (computer symbols only refer to other symbols) to the symbol emergence problem. Building on Peirce’s semiotics—sign, object, interpretant—SEST treats symbols as dynamic processes.
🔄 From the classic “symbol grounding problem” (computer symbols only refer to other symbols) to the symbol emergence problem. Building on Peirce’s semiotics—sign, object, interpretant—SEST treats symbols as dynamic processes.
🤖 LLMs & Meaning
Large language models show that raw text alone can encode human knowledge—but they also raise questions: Where does meaning come from, and how do learners link words to concepts?
🤖 LLMs & Meaning
Large language models show that raw text alone can encode human knowledge—but they also raise questions: Where does meaning come from, and how do learners link words to concepts?
🤔 What is a symbol?
SEST is an interdisciplinary science of meaning—asking how symbols (words, signs, gestures) acquire, evolve, and convey meaning in humans and embodied machines.
🤔 What is a symbol?
SEST is an interdisciplinary science of meaning—asking how symbols (words, signs, gestures) acquire, evolve, and convey meaning in humans and embodied machines.