Mystery Number Three - Computational Linguistics and Talking Robots - page 62

b. Navigation :
matching between LA-think rules and content proplets (3.4.2)
c. Production from Stored Content :
matching between LA-speak rules and content proplets (3.4.3)
d. Querying :
matching between query patterns and content proplets (4.2.2)
e. Inferencing :
matching between inference rules and content proplets (5.2.3 and 5.3.4)
How should the kinds of DBS pattern matching 4.5.1 and 4.5.2 be integrated
into the component structure and functional flow of a cognitive agent?
The component structure of diagram 4.3.2 models reference as viewed in
analytic philosophy, i.e., as a vertical relation between horizontal language ex-
pressions and a horizontal world (4.3.1). At the same time, 4.3.2 departs from
the standard assumptions of analytic philosophy, including Truth-Conditional
Semantics, because it does not treat reference as an external relation defined in
a metalanguage, as postulated by mathematical realism (cf. FoCL'99, Chaps.
19-21), but as an agent-internal, cognitive procedure.
Diagram 4.3.2 is essential for explaining the Seven Principles of Pragmatics
in the S LIM theory of language (cf. NLC'06, Sect. 2.6.) and well-suited for
showing the applications of pattern matching based on the type-token relation
(4.5.1). It fails, however, to provide a place for pattern matching based on
restricted variables (4.5.2, a-e). Consider the following alternative component
structure, which is functionally more inclusive than diagram 4.3.2:

4.5.3 R EFINED COMPONENT STRUCTURE OF A COGNITIVE AGENT

cognitive agent

peripheral
cognition

central cognition

1 = external recognition
2 = external action
3 = internal recognition
4 = internal action
5 = input to rule component
6 = output of Word Bank
7 = rule-Word_Bank interaction
8 = Word_Bank-rule interaction

rule component

5

1

8 7

Word Bank

6

2

3 4