[ExI] Meaningless Symbols

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 11:59:54 UTC 2010


2010/1/9 Gordon Swobe <gts_2000 at yahoo.com>:
> Human operators ascribe meanings to the symbols their computers manipulate.

How would that be the case? Ascribing meaning to a symbol means to
associate something to something else. As, in, e.g., ax^2 + bx + c = y
when I ascribe to x the meaning of "5". What would be so special in
what humans would be doing in this respect?

-- 
Stefano Vaj



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