On Communicating with Semantic Machines

Semantics is the essence of human communication. It concerns the manufacture and use of symbols as representations to exchange meanings. Information technology is faced with the problem of using intelligent machines as intermediaries for interpersonal communication. The problem of designing such semantic machines has been intractable because brains and machines work on very different principles. A solution to the problem is to describe how brains create meaning and then express it in information by making a symbol as a representation to another brain in pairwise communication. Understanding of the neurodynamics by which brains create meaning may enable engineers to build devices with which they can communicate pairwise, as they do now with colleagues, though not with words, but with shared actions.