[ExI] How to ground a symbol

[Gordon Swobe]

--- On Sun, 1/31/10, Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:

> In future, whenever the system sees a rose, it will know
> whether it's a red rose or not, because there'll be a part
> of its internal state that matches the symbol "Red". 

The system you describe won't really "know" it is red. It will merely act as if it knows it is red, no different from, say, an automated camera that acts as if it knows the light level in the room and automatically adjusts for it. 

-gts