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>From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
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Subject: Re: Grounding: Real vs. Virtual (formerly "on meaning")
Keywords: symbol, analog, Turing Test, robotics
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Date: 21 May 92 09:08:18 GMT
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In article <1992May20.221931.20652@news.media.mit.edu> minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:

>guys.  Are you ever going to question the fatal assumption that foulds
>the history of philosophy: that idea of a Singel Central Self, which
>"means" and "understands" and looks out through its eyes and "sees"
>the world?  Gosh, I'm tired of complaining about this.

You prefer 'consciousness' to be one process (or a small set of processes)
within a (possibly chaotic) network of processes?
So do I.

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