Language as Autopoiesis - Experimental Approach to Agency in Linguistic Communication
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چکیده
One of the challenges of artificial life is to implement agency in the creature. This paper is going to argue for the concept of agency existing in linguistic communication. It is usual and normal to see that agency exists outside of language: it is the user of the language who is equipped with agency, and language is not ostensibly related to it. On the other hand, since the invention of the Turing test, it has been an unsolvable question whether agency is a physical property, or something that is attributed from the outside. Here, it is argued that agency emerges in linguistic communication itself. For developing this idea, we have designed a new communication game between two human subjects in order to see how ”agency” is organized in each communication pattern (which is intended to be a proto-language).
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