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>From: pindor@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Mean thoughts on what meaning means
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References: <1992May14.164117.25016@psych.toronto.edu> <1992May14.221449.3721@spss.com> <1992May15.152549.13330@psych.toronto.edu> <1992May16.003049.6758@spss.com> <9409@scott.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 17:06:07 GMT

In article <9409@scott.ed.ac.uk> sharder@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Soren Harder) writes:
....
>our world. On the other hand, it puts up the problem: Why wouldn't we
>say that e.g. a Pacman program has symbol grounding, not to our
>world (only through the programmer), but to the imaginary 'Pacman world'?
>
Exactly, why wouldn't we? I do not see anything wrong with it. On the contrary,
it sounds very reasonable to me. Entity operating in an imaginary world
(say, cyberspace) would have its symbols grounded in this world. I do not even
see why couldn't we provide the entity with some tranducers, if they are 
necessary, although I do not understand why they should be.

>Soren Harder


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