Language Re-Entrance and the 'Inner Voice'

Author: Steels L.1

Source: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 10, Numbers 4-5, 2003 , pp. 173-185(13)

Publisher: Imprint Academic

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Abstract:

As soon as we stop talking aloud, we seem to experience a kind of 'inner voice', a steady stream of verbal fragments expressing ongoing thoughts. What kind of information processing structures are required to explain such a phenomenon? Why would an 'inner voice' be useful? How could it have arisen? This paper explores these questions and reports briefly some computational experiments to help elucidate them.

Keywords: consciousness; origins of language; inner voice; robotic models

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Free University of Brussels, VUB AI Laboratory, 10G-725, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.., Email: steels@arti.vub.ac.be

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