[ExI] The digital nature of brains

[Dave Sill]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Gordon Swobe <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> True or false, Stathis:
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> When program running on a digital computer associates a sense-datum (say, an image of object taken with its web-cam) with the appropriate word-symbol, the system running that program has now by virtue of that association grounded the word-symbol and now has understanding of the meaning of that word-symbol.

That depends entirely upon the nature of the program.

-Dave