Grounding

The connection between inside and outside. Axiom, concept, meaning.

also called:
stuck at:
confidence:

my lines

• The question “why ground at all?”
• Grounding. It fits reality well.
• Frame of reference (bringing experience into agreement, disambiguation, unifying the grounding)
• A psychological-test program.?
• Grounded in language
• Is making a sentence also a rule, a convention, a grounding game?
• You compute a formula by the grounding game. You know the result afterwards.
• If you are strongly grounded in a formula, a piece of know-how, a rule — does thought flow that way and get easier?
• What is easy to look at? (how familiarly, how much, has it been grounded?)
• Reading a recipe
• Language grounding inside the head (inner monologue)
• Execution

from the AI

[AI] The point is not compression, it’s grounding.
This is the real point — being folded up is useless on its own. You have to know it without unfolding.
If every time you see player.jump() you unfold it and ask “what does this do internally?”, the compression bought you nothing. It should just be jump. It has to stick immediately.
Same as the alley you mentioned. A Korean knows it without picturing it. Abstraction is what a programming language does to produce that state.
That’s how bad abstractions happen — if the name doesn’t tell you what it does, you have to unfold it every time. Compressed but not grounded. That’s worse than not compressing.
In layers: abstraction is making a layer-3 rule.
pulling the common part from many cases → compression
giving it a name → symbolisation
using it elsewhere → transfer
someone else picking it up → independence
being able to misuse it → norm

counterexamples

linked concepts

= language-game
= concept-meaning
→ axiom
↔ abstraction