Constructive approach to bidirectional influence between qualia structure and language emergence
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences December 23, 2025 Tadahiro Taniguchi, Masafumi Oizumi, Noburo Saji et al. 1 citation
Language emergence and the relational structure of subjective experiences, termed qualia structure, may influence each other bidirectionally. The emergence of languages with distributional semantics, such as syntactic-semantic structures, is hypothesized to link to the coordination of internal representations shaped by experience, potentially facilitating more structured language through reciprocal influence. This mutual dependency is explored through theoretical frameworks like collective predictive coding. Computational studies show that neural network-based language models form systematically structured internal representations, and multimodal language models can share representations between language and perceptual information. Language emergence may serve not only as a communication tool but also as a mechanism for shared understanding of qualitative experiences. The paper outlines future constructive research directions in consciousness studies, linguistics, and cognitive science.