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>From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: Grounding: Real vs. Virtual (formerly "on meaning")
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <zlsiida.334@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> <1992May23.152941.12033@psych.toronto.edu> <600@trwacs.fp.trw.com>
Message-ID: <1992May24.143025.7180@psych.toronto.edu>
Keywords: symbol, analog, Turing Test, robotics
Date: Sun, 24 May 1992 14:30:25 GMT

In article <600@trwacs.fp.trw.com> erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes:
>christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
>>In article <zlsiida.334@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
>>>I'm prepared not only to argue that we never see the world, but further, 
>>>that we never see retinal images either.  
>
>>then you are at great pains to account for the astounding correspondence 
>>what we see and what's out there. Just a lucky break?
>
>There has to be a correspondence, or the system would not have survived.
>Not just a lucky break, but evolution in operation. 
>
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.


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Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
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