While traditional cognitive modeling approaches have assumed symbolic coding schemes as a means for depicting the world, translating the world into these kinds of symbolic representations has proven to be problematic if not untenable . symbolic representation are therefore core issues to be addressed in cognitive robotics.
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According to Gates, " [ T ] he Signifying Monkey is able to signify upon the Lion because the Lion does not understand the Monkey s discourse & The monkey speaks figuratively, in a symbolic code; the lion interprets or reads literally and suffers the consequences of his folly & " In this way, the Monkey uses the same language as the Lion, but he uses it on a level that the Lion cannot comprehend.
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Arguably the human brain is ( and probably always will be ) the most sophisticated computer yet devised : both the brain and computers as we know them require a sophisticated network of components devoted to specific tasks, relay information via electrical impulses, and process new messages / stored information via symbolic coding of sorts ( be it " 110 = green pixel " or " your-cheating-ex's-perfume = adrenalin = angry " ).
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The two of them structure the text : The semic code ( SEM ) designates a special kind of signifiers ( e . g . person, a place, an object ) to which adhere unstable meanings and that enable the development of a theme through the story . ( XI, LXXXI ) The symbolic code ( SYM ) are meanings that are constitutive ( stemming from the fields of rhetoric, sexuality, or economy ), but cannot be represented in the text, except in metonymies, which renders the text open to different interpretations ( XI, XCII ).
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These publications contain, but are not limited to, no fewer than 15 numbered tracts, five volumes of " The Answerer " ( questions submitted to his office from believers and non-believers of his message ), two volumes of " Timely Greetings ", ( Volume 1 containing 52 books and Volume 2 containing 46 books ), a series of usually monthly publications entitled " The Symbolic Code " containing many of Victor Houteff's Sabbath sermons given after believers in both " the Spirit of Prophecy " ( Ellen White ) and Davidian messages were disfellowshipped and chose to have private worship rather than begin a new church denomination.
