[ExI] Meaningless Symbols

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 14:00:42 UTC 2010


2010/1/13 Gordon Swobe <gts_2000 at yahoo.com>:
>> My favorite chapter of Gödel, Escher, Bach is "The
>> Location of Meaning". Hofstadter points out, essentially, that...
>
> At the end of the day, after all his intellectual musings and gyrations, Hofstadter still needs to demonstrate how he solves the symbol grounding problem without a mind in which symbols can find their grounding:
>
> Symbol Grounding
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_grounding

At the end of the next day you need to show how the mind solves the
symbol grounding problem. I don't expect you to come up with the
actual answer, just an indication of what an answer might look like
would suffice.

-- 
Stathis Papaioannou



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