Gordon M. Burghardt. Ontogeny of communication. In Thomas A. Sebeok, editor, How Animals Communicate, pages 71--97. Indiane University Press, 1977.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles   Check

....DG FG 86NE37969, by the National Science Foundation under grant IRI 9015423, by the PYI award IRI 9158473, by ONR grant N00014 95 1 0775 and by the National Science Foundation CAREER award IRI 9702132. 1 1 Introduction This paper follows the tradition of cognitive science and related fields [5, 11, 30], according to which the fundamental function of communication is to confer some advantage to the speaker by influencing what the hearer(s) knows and intends to do. The contribution of this paper is to propose a well defined mechanism that realizes this function in autonomous, self interested ....

....or RMM Random 4.86 Sigma 0.58 1079.52 Sigma 210.64 random) Human Random 4.85 Sigma 0.59 1115.57 Sigma 228.94 Note) For all of cases, Battery1 is fully functional. f :05;2;57 = 3:15, f :01;3;76 = 4:13 11 Related Work As we mentioned, our approach follows the tradition of cognitive science [5, 11, 30], which postulates that the function of communication is to confer some advantage to the speaker by influencing what the hearer knows and intends to do. For instance, MacLennan ( 30] page 636) states that If we want genuine meaning and original intentionality, then communication must have real ....

Gordon M. Burghardt. Ontogeny of communication. In Thomas A. Sebeok, editor, How Animals Communicate, pages 71--97. Indiane University Press, 1977.

....Given the context of the above notions, we define communication as the phenomenon of one agent (speaker) producing a signal that, when responded to by another agent (hearer) confers some advantage (or the statistical probability of it) to the speaker. This definition paraphrases the definition in [5], and is supported by numerous approaches to study of communication in cognitive science [6, 16] It says that the communicative act must be purposeful and beneficial to the speaker. Given the framework of above, it can be readily interpreted as a condition that a communicative act lead to an ....

G. M. Burghardt. Ontogeny of communication. In T. A. Sebeok, editor, How Animals Communicate, pages 71-- 97. Indiane University Press, 1977.

....If it is questionable to attribute intent to a fly, it is reckless to attribute it to a simorg: we need a definition of communication that does not appeal to problematic ideas like intent. A definition of communication that is very consistent with our approach has been proposed by Burghardt:[5, 6] Communication is the phenomenon of one organism producing a signal that, when responded to by another organ ism, confers some advantage (or the statistical probability of it) to the signaler or his group. This says that communication must be relevant in an evolutionary sense to the ....

Burghardt, Gordon M. "Ontogeny of Communication." In How Animals Communicate, edited by Thomas A. Sebeok. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1977, 71--97.

....If it is questionable to attribute intent to a fly, it is reckless to attribute it to a simorg. We need a definition of communication that does not appeal to difficult ideas like intent. A definition of communication that is very consistent with our approach has been proposed by Burghardt [3, 4]: Communication is the phenomenon of one organism producing a signal that, when responded to by another organism, confers some advantage (or the statistical probability of it) to the signaler or his group. This says that communication must be relevant in an evolutionary sense to the ....

Burghardt, Gordon M. "Ontogeny of Communication." In How Animals Communicate, edited by Thomas A. Sebeok. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1977, 71--97.

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