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Article 5929 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Grounding: Real vs. Virtual (formerly "on meaning")
Keywords: symbol, analog, Turing Test, robotics
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Date: 26 May 92 19:50:20 GMT
References: <ppyky7j.nagle@netcom.com> <1992May23.141738.14114@news.media.mit.edu> <604@trwacs.fp.trw.com> <1992May25.200854.6087@psych.toronto.edu>
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In article <1992May25.200854.6087@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
|In article <604@trwacs.fp.trw.com> erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes:
|>minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
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|>>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.
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|Is this just an assertion of standard neotony, or is there something different
|here of which I'm unaware?

No, the term neotony refers to maturation, not birth.

The biological term here is 'altricial young' (as opposed to 'precocial').
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