[ExI] The symbol grounding problem in strong AI

[Gordon Swobe]

--- On Sat, 12/19/09, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:

> The CR lacks understanding because the man in the room, who can be 
> seen as implementing a program, lacks understanding;

Yes.

> whereas a different system which produces similar 
> behaviour but with dumb components the interactions of which can't be
> recognised as algorithmic has understanding. 

What different system?

If you mean the natural brain, (the only different system known to have understanding), then it doesn't matter whether we can recognize its processes as algorithmic. Any computer running those possible algorithms would have no understanding.

More generally, computer simulations of things do not equal the things they simulate. 

-gts