[ExI] The symbol grounding problem in strong AI

[Stefano Vaj]

2009/12/27 Gordon Swobe <gts_2000 at yahoo.com>

> If you want to believe that computers have intrinsic understanding of the
> symbols their programs input and output, and argue provisionally as you do
> above that they can have it because their mindless programs don't prevent
> them from having it, but you can't show me how the hardware allows them to
> have it even if the programs don't, then I can only shrug my shoulders.
> After all people can believe anything they wish. :)
>

Yes, but usually they have some kind of reason to believe something which
can be communicated.

Now, why would you want to believe, or rather, what would you mean by
saying, that organic brains have an "intrinsic understanding of the symbols
their programs input and output"? :-/

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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