ERC Advanced Grant · 2021
Human communication as joint epistemic engineering
Imagine ordering a drink at a diner, pointing at an empty glass as an attentive waiter passes by. How did you select that particular gesture, and how could the waiter possibly interpret it as you intended? As any other signal we use to communicate daily, that gesture is highly ambiguous outside its context of use. How can human communication work by using referentially flexible and contextually dependent signals? MINDSHARING argues that interlocutors are communicatively effective because they jointly control their interaction-specific shared context. MINDSHARING integrates computational, developmental, and cognitive neuroscience to understand how that control is algorithmically defined,…
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