{"id":"action-mediated-grounding","title":"Grounding through the effects of language","regions":["language-and-experience","normative-change"],"question":"Can an AI acquire a form of practical grounding through the effects its language has on human action?","formulation":"Investigate indirect grounding through intention, exposure, action, and consequences, distinguishing an action-mediated relationship from a claim that a model has bodily experience.","representations":[{"name":"An utterance and its intended meaning","affords":"Makes the communicative act inspectable.","loses":"Intent does not establish actual consequences.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"},{"name":"A loop through another actor’s actions and reports","affords":"Connects language with practical effects.","loses":"Indirect feedback is not identical to having a body or subjective experience.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"}],"tension":"A system may influence action without observing, understanding, or experiencing all of its effects.","challenge":"Which consequences are observed directly and which arrive only as another actor’s report?","development":"independent_branch","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction","evidence":["basis-action-mediated-grounding"],"next_move":{"text":"Compare a communication-only task with one where explicit action feedback is available; avoid using this as a test of consciousness.","epistemic_kind":"model_proposed"},"open_questions":["Can an AI acquire a form of practical grounding through the effects its language has on human action?","Which consequences are observed directly and which arrive only as another actor’s report?"],"formal_status":"open_problem","version":1,"content_hash":"2656422ea67839401aae8d080f95a67831f6b07f1bda7ed5313ecf55733c747d"}