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Article 7480 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: grounding and the entity/environment boundary
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Date: 1 Nov 92 23:46:59 GMT
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In article <720582638@sheol.UUCP> throopw@sheol.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:

> ... makes it hard to treat groundedness as a
>property of the symbol system, or of its physical realization.  The
>"grounding is as grounding does" definition above does a bit better for
>me here ...

Of course. Groundedeness can no more be a property of a symbol system
than can meaning or purpose. These concepts -- like intelligence, and
mind itself -- can only be applied to a creature-in-its-world. That's
why it's so hard to find intelligence in the brain :-)
-- 
Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
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