Symbol Grounding
Symbol grounding asks how the meaning of a symbol becomes connected to perception, action, or the external world rather than only to other symbols.
Definition
Symbol grounding asks how the meaning of a symbol becomes connected to perception, action, or the external world rather than only to other symbols.
Technical Context
If definitions only point to more definitions, the question becomes where meaning connects to the world. Multimodal and embodied systems provide new experimental approaches to this problem.