[ExI] The symbol grounding problem in strong AI

Thu Dec 24 03:13:33 UTC 2009

On 12/23/2009 8:52 PM, Gordon Swobe wrote:

> Sorry for those dupe messages!
>
> It seems this web-based yahoo email application from which I send messages can do only form-based syntactical operations on symbols. It cannot get semantics from syntax, and so it never has any idea what it's doing!

Yeah, but the entertaining thing is that, in effect, you're doing 
exactly the same thing with this thread.

Damien Broderick