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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: Grounding: Virtual vs. Real
Message-ID: <1992Jun2.014828.2768@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1992 01:48:28 GMT
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In article <9614@kesson.ed.ac.uk> sharder@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Soren Harder) writes:
>rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>
>>  You should ask Harnad, not me.  Harnad assumed that there was intelligence
>>in his TTT.

>It ain't necessarily so. The intelligence can be in the combination of
>the transducers and the rest.

 Given that Harnad has broadened the idea of transducer to include all of
the internal components, transducers then become important.  After all,
as I said in a response to Harnad, all of the components of a computer
are transducers too.

 The point remains, however, that the major importance must lie within the
information and the way it is processed.  Whether the particular information
receptors happen to be analog or digital is completely irrelevant.  Whether
the processing (or transformation, or whatever) of the information is
purely digital or purely analog, or a combination, is also irrelevant.


>                              This is exactly the reason I ask you to
>think a bit further, and consider how intelligence could be
>implemented.

 You just want me to post a complete solution to the whole problem all
at once?  Be serious.  However I will say that learning is a key
ingredient.



