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>From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: Grounding: Real vs. Virtual (formerly "on meaning")
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <ppyky7j.nagle@netcom.com> <1992May23.141738.14114@news.media.mit.edu> <604@trwacs.fp.trw.com>
Message-ID: <1992May25.200854.6087@psych.toronto.edu>
Keywords: symbol, analog, Turing Test, robotics
Date: Mon, 25 May 1992 20:08:54 GMT

In article <604@trwacs.fp.trw.com> erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes:
>minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
>
>>In "Society of Mind" I made a weak argument that humans have evolved
>>to be especially helpless in infancy -- so that they're forced to
>>learn more from their parents.
>
Is this just an assertion of standard neotony, or is there something different
here of which I'm unaware?


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Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
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