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>From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Grounding: Real vs. Virtual (formerly "on meaning")
Keywords: symbol, analog, Turing Test, robotics
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Date: 24 May 92 12:27:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: trwacs.599
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I frequently use a system to simulate itself. I do a lot of performance
engineering, and benchmark data are the best kind. To get that, I have to
set up a some initial conditions and an input scenario and run them on the
real system. 

Cheers,
-- 
Harry Erwin
Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com


