We've had many postings of late on human nature from guest-blogger Tom Clark and from Marcelo, Stu, and me, so I'll go ahead and continue the thread. I'll first consider the concept of a self, then ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - It didn't start with Valentine's Day. Flowers have been silent signals between sweethearts as well as symbols in art since ancient times. Roman artists represented love by a rose; ...

Dr. Stone answers the question: 'Trouble With Symbolic Language Concepts?' Oct. 23, 2008 -- Question: What are common differences in the way a person on the autism spectrum might have trouble ...

How does one person actually communicate to another person? In fact all communication follows from shared symbolic codes in the brain. Thoughts are never directly communicated between people. All ...

As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought and Action, words are not the things they represent. Words are symbols. It’s the manipulation of those symbols that ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Lucretius distinguishes between animal vocalization (uoces ciere) and human language (res uoce notare) in ways that may be called "semiotic": ...

For years, we have watched large language models (LLMs) capture our imagination. ChatGPT writes emails, Gemini provides ...

Most children learn that written numbers represent quantities in pre-school or junior primary school. Now our new study shows that honeybees too can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much like ...

Advances in artificial intelligence, particularly large language models (LLMs), have been driven by the "scaling law" paradigm: performance improves with more data, computation, and larger models.