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>From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
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 11:06:21 GMT
References: <zlsiida.334@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> <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:

>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.

1 over infinity may be very very very small but it ain't zero
Prove there are infinite organismic constitutions.
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