Dongsheng Xiao

Can Artificial Intelligence Possess Meaning Without the Pressure to Survive? A Relational Account of Meaning, Grounding, Normativity, and the Limits of Large Language Models

Meaning is routinely conflated with information, representation, linguistic competence, or behavioral success. This Perspective develops a relational account in which meaning is the directional causal value that a difference acquires relative to a system's organization, goals, an...