<div> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Gordon <<a href="mailto:gts_2000@yahoo.com">gts_2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
> 1) Semantics is not intrinsic to syntax. There is no conceivable way that a digital computer running software could know the meanings of the symbols it manipulates.<br></blockquote><br>In the context of a digital computer running a operating system a 0 could mean "copy the data in hard disk sector X to buffer memory Y". And In the context of a digital computer running a operating system and also a word processing program the contents of buffer memory Y could mean a word in the English language.<br>
<br>And in the same way in the context of a bacteria (or a human cell) the meaning of 3 guanine nucleotides molecules in a row means "stick a glycine amino acid molecule at the end of that huge protein you're building in that ribosome ". <br>
<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">> there is no real syntax in the brain. </blockquote><div><br>That is equivalent to saying there is no organization in the brain, and that can't be right. <br>
<br> John K Clark <br><br><br><br></div>