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>From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Grounding: Real vs. Virtual (formerly "on meaning")
Keywords: symbol, analog, Turing Test, robotics
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Date: 28 May 92 13:42:59 GMT
References: <1992May23.152941.12033@psych.toronto.edu> <600@trwacs.fp.trw.com> <1992May24.143025.7180@psych.toronto.edu>
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In article <1992May24.143025.7180@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
>Evolution can't save you here. How did evolution do it? There are infinite
>possible organismic constitutions. Thus the probability of it coming upon
>the right one intitially is exactly 0. A more sophisticated explanation
>is indicated.

You seem to be saying that evolution doesn't work. I don't see anything
in your argument that makes it special for the evolution of minds that
relate to the world (rather than to some random imagination), rather than
all of evolution. Do you really believe evolution doesn't work?

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