[ExI] The symbol grounding problem in strong AI

[Dave Sill]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Gordon Swobe <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Programs that run algorithms do not and cannot have semantics.

Programs are really nothing but semantics encoded in a rigorous syntax
understandable to a processor. If programs were just meaningless
syntax, they wouldn't be capable of doing anything useful.

>They do useful things but have no understanding of the things they do.

They aren't self aware, yet, but that doesn't mean they have no
meaning/semantics.

-Dave