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Article 7059 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
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Subject: Re: Grounding
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Date: 29 Sep 92 14:33:56 GMT
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Mark Rosenfelder comments that the meaning of many words is grounded in
sensory experience. But Freeman has shown that sensory experience is
processed semantically in the sense organs. Hence all experience is
subjective. Why then is there an objective reality? 

The answer may be that even the sense organs need a model to understand
the data they collect. The more that model reflects objective reality, the
better its predictions, and good predictions are necessary for survival. 

I believe all this has been said before, and better. My point is that this
interpretation is now supported experimentally. (If that has any meaning
here 8)).

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