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Article 7489 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: 2 Nov 92 20:27:57 GMT
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In article <720241604@sheol.UUCP> throopw@sheol.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:

>I can think of ways to make things more objective, like "a symbol
>system is potentially grounded if there exists a physical system
>including the symbol system that can be considered to have
>wide-bandwidth senses which 'directly experience' the world", or some
>such.

Don't forget behaviour. It's not enough just to have senses, you need
to be messing about in the world as well as just seeing it. The
experience needs to be of you behaving in the world.
-- 
Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK                DoD #205


