[ExI] The symbol grounding problem in strong AI

[Stathis Papaioannou]

2009/12/21 Gordon Swobe <gts_2000 at yahoo.com>:

>> Not everything has a mind, just information-processing
>> things. Mind is not a binary quality: even in biology there
>> is a gradation between bacteria and humans. The richer and more
>> complex the information processing, the richer and more complex the mind.
>
> One can argue that everything "processes information" at some level. Again, it entails panpsychism, in which even the lowly punch card somehow has a mind capable of "understanding".

Where would you draw the line in the animal kingdom?


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Stathis Papaioannou