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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: <1992May19.003821.9450@Princeton.EDU> <6904@pkmab.se> <1992May25.170646.19783@guinness.idbsu.edu>
Message-ID: <1992May25.201327.6947@psych.toronto.edu>
Keywords: symbol, analog, Turing Test, robotics
Date: Mon, 25 May 1992 20:13:27 GMT

In article <1992May25.170646.19783@guinness.idbsu.edu> holmes@opal.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes) writes:
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>I've been itching to say something like this.  There is an
>all-embracing counterexample; a simulated reality is a reality. 

What might this possibly mean?! Is real heat "a reality"? Is a real
thought "a reality". If yes, then you've been falisified. If no, then
what counts as "a reality" and what doesn't? Unless you can answer this
(consider it a dare) then your claim has no content.


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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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