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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: Grounding: Virtual vs. Real
Message-ID: <1992Jun1.120457.28281@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
References: <9597@scott.ed.ac.uk> <1992Jun1.014731.28528@mp.cs.niu.edu> <614@trwacs.fp.trw.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1992 12:04:57 GMT
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In article <614@trwacs.fp.trw.com> erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes:
>>the intelligence is not in the transducers, so it must be in what is
>left.
>
>I don't think this has been demonstrated. If the sensory organs do
>sufficiently complex processing, the possibility remains that intelligence
>is distributed between them and the brain.

  I would argue that once you add "sufficiently complex processing" to
the transducer, it is no longer a transducer.  I didn't see anything
in Harnad's postings that would suggest he was doing this.  Otherwise I
would have said he was begging the question.

  Apart from that, I don't have any disagreement with your points.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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