[ExI] The symbol grounding problem in strong AI

[Gordon Swobe]

--- On Fri, 1/8/10, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:

> You say experience affects behaviour, but you are quite
> happy with the idea that a zombie can reproduce human behaviour without
> having experience.

Yes.

> So what is to stop a p-neuron from behaving like a
> c-neuron despite lacking experience if nothing stops the
> zombie from acting like a human, which is arguably a much harder task?

Nothing. Just as philosophical zombies are logically possible, so too are p-neurons and for the same reasons. 

But again the first surgeon who tries a partial replacement in Wernicke's area with p-neurons will run into serious complications. The p-neurons will require lots of programming and patches and so on to compensate for the patient's lack of experience, complications the surgeon did not anticipate because like you he does not realize that the p-neurons don't give the patient the experience of his own understanding.


-gts