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>From: pindor@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: The Systems Reply I
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References: <1992Mar6.185926.18497@oracorp.com> <1992Mar9.171606.6886@psych.toronto.edu> <6374@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1992 15:28:45 GMT

In article <6374@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>
>BTW, I still haven't seen a satisfactory answer to the point that
>the Room manipulates meaningless symbols (ie, treats them syntactically)
>without any way to attach meaning to them.  But maybe I've just
>missed it in all the noise.
>
I still haven't seen a satisfactory answer what this semantic meaning is and
how it arises in the brain from sensory input. Or does it arise independent
of sensory input? How? 

>-- jd


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