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Article 5913 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: figure/grounding
Date: 26 May 1992 18:35:05 GMT
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In article <1992May25.214006.29965@Princeton.EDU> harnad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Stevan Harnad) writes:
...
>it is no more justified in the case of the TTT robot than in the case
>of the real plane to imagine that the "transduction" is just a trivial
>interface to a "core" that is just computing: The innards of the robot
>could very well be mostly analog transduction all the way through, as
>in the case of the plane. (And "analog" does not just mean continuous
>as opposed to discrete, but physical, as in the case of an airplane, as
                             ^^^^^^^^
>opposed to symbolic, as in the case of computations that are merely
            ^^^^^^^^
>interpretable as if they were an airplane.)

 Until you come up with a new physical theory of the universe which
 dispenses with or explains away the wave-particle co-equal aspects of
 all 'stuff' that exists in the universe,  the disjunction and opposition
 between 'physical stuff' and 'symbolic stuff' remains vacuous.


