Conscious Intelligent Systems - Part II - Mind, Thought, Language and Understanding

TL;DR

This paper explores how mind, language, and understanding interrelate in conscious intelligent systems, emphasizing the role of language in cognition and implications for humanoid and self-conscious systems.

Contribution

It extends previous work on conscious systems by analyzing the influence of mind and language on understanding and intelligent behavior.

Findings

Mind presence enhances understanding in intelligent systems.

Language is essential for the development of understanding.

Implications for humanoid and self-conscious AI systems are discussed.

Abstract

This is the second part of a paper on Conscious Intelligent Systems. We use the understanding gained in the first part (Conscious Intelligent Systems Part 1: IXI (arxiv id cs.AI/0612056)) to look at understanding. We see how the presence of mind affects understanding and intelligent systems; we see that the presence of mind necessitates language. The rise of language in turn has important effects on understanding. We discuss the humanoid question and how the question of self-consciousness (and by association mind/thought/language) would affect humanoids too.