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>From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Grounding: Real vs. Virtual (formerly "on meaning")
Keywords: symbol, analog, Turing Test, robotics
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Date: 22 May 92 12:05:10 GMT
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The problem you will encounter is that consciousness involves at least the
mental manipulation of objects and hence motor feedback. To support
consciousness in your model, you would have to provide that feedback. That
is distinctly non-trivial.

-- 
Harry Erwin
Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com



