Abstract

In this paper I am presenting a model of human communication which allows a decomposition of our subjective experience into units called strategies. Strategies are systematically ordered sequencesof representations in our sensory modalities, endowed with so called submodality distinctions, orientation, effect, and links to other representations. As certain people prove more successful in performing given tasks than others, we want to model their strategies and transfer them to other intelligent agents. Unlike most philosophers who have written about qualia and believe that subjective experience condemns us to "solitary confinement," I believe strategies are accessible to us. Here is how. All behavior, from learning to communication and change, is the result of our strategies. It is constantly giving us information about the underlying strategies by way of physiologicaland linguistic cues. The model I am presenting in this paper offers a systematic study and categorization of these cues...

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