stephen j. cowley a1 a1 department of psychology, university of hertfordshire, hatfield, hertfordshire al10 9ab, united kingdom and school of psychology, university of kwazulu-natal, south africa
s.j.cowley@herts.ac.uk
Abstract
emphasizing that agents gain from culture-based patterns, i consider the etiology of meaning. since the simulations show that “shared categories” are not based in learning, i challenge steels & belpaeme's (s&b's) folk view of language. instead, i stress that meaning uses indexicals to set off a replicator process. finally, i suggest that memetic patterns – not words – are the grounding of language.
