[ExI] Semiotics and Computability (was: The digital nature of brains)

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 12:24:24 UTC 2010


On 4 February 2010 12:15, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not completely sure what you're saying in this post, but at some
> point the string of symbol associations (A means B, B means C, C means
> D...) is grounded in sensory input.


Defined as?


> Searle would say that there needs
> to be an extra step whereby the symbol so grounded gains "meaning",
> but this extra step is not only completely mysterious, it is also
> completely superfluous, since every observable fact about the world
> would be the same without it.
>

Which sounds pretty equivalent to saying that it does not exist, if one
accepts that one's "world" is simply the set of all observable phenomena,
and that a claim pertaining to the existence of something is meaningless
only if it can be disproved.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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