[ExI] The symbol grounding problem in strong AI

[Gordon Swobe]

--- On Sat, 1/9/10, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/1/10 BillK <pharos at gmail.com>:
> 
>> I think what Gordon might be trying to say is that the
>> brain is not  *digital* computer.

Yes Bill, you understand me correctly.

Stathis writes:

> No-one claims that the brain is a digital computer, but it
> can be simulated by a digital computer. 

If you think simulations of brains on digital computers will have everything real brains have then you must think natural brains work like digital computers. But they don't.

-gts