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>From: zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum)
Subject: Re: syntax and semantics
Message-ID: <1992Apr10.140720.10898@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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In article <1992Apr9.174840.3407@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs) writes:
>  I don't agree with this analysis (if I understand it).  In a brain,
>at the neuron level, there is also no inherent meaning or reference.
>But this does not mean that it is up to us to decide whether or not
>to "project" meaning and reference.  Meaning is an aspect of function,
>and function is conferred by design.  Computers are designed by
>people, and brains are designed by natural selection.  The roles
>that symbols play are the purposes they are designed to serve, and
>observers have nothing to do with it.
>
>	-- Bill


	So we have:
	Humans are designed by natural selection!
	- Computers are designed by Humans!
	- ie. Computers are the end result of natural selection!
	So - Computers are designed by natural selection!
  Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
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