[ExI] Religious idiocy (was: digital nature of brains)

[Gordon Swobe]

--- On Fri, 1/29/10, Eric Messick <eric at m056832107.syzygy.com> wrote:

> You're conflating symbols and words.

Words are symbols, Eric. Not all symbols are words but all words are symbols.

> Meaning is attached to word symbols when the word symbols
> are associated with sense symbols, not with other word
> symbols.

In this thread I was addressing the claim that the symbol grounding problem is solved when computers associate symbols.

-gts