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Article 5907 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Grounding: Real vs. Virtual
Message-ID: <28@tdatirv.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 92 14:00:28 GMT
References: <60703@aurs01.UUCP> <78417@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992May20.170019.26095@kbsw1>
Reply-To: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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In article <1992May20.170019.26095@kbsw1> chris@kbsw3.UUCP (Chris Kostanick 806 1044) writes:
|The argument that a robot with tranducers is fundementally different
|than a robot program interacting with a virtual world sounds wonky to me.
|The transducer input is just a number, (or a bunch of them for a CCD array)
|and the input from the virtual world is just a number.

And, to finish the 'analogy', the input from a biological transducer
(light senstive cell, touch cell, etc) is just a number, the number of
spikes per second.


Now, myself, I, like you, see little difference between a simulated
reality and a 'real' one.  (Come on - prove to me this is not all a
dream :-;)

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