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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
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Subject: Reference (was re: Multiple Personality Disorder and Strong AI)
Keywords: consciousness,functionalism
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Date: 8 Feb 92 04:21:48 GMT
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In article <1992Feb7.162533.4653@cs.yale.edu> 
mcdermott-drew@CS.YALE.EDU (Drew McDermott) 
selflessly sketches a theory of consciousness, and adds:

>However, I acknowledge that the theory does depend on a
>"correlationist" theory of reference and meaning.  That is (as we've
>hashed out before), it depends on meaning being objectively given by
>correlations between model and thing modeled, and not being dependent
>on "original intentionality" or the like.

Recall your earlier claims about semantics.  What determines the meaning's
being objectively given by correlations, etc.?

>                                             -- Drew McDermott


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