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Article 7493 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: tim@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (Tim Roberts)
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Subject: Re: grounding and the entity/environment boundary
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Date: 3 Nov 92 05:44:45 GMT
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cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:

>In article <1992Oct30.195251.9573@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:

>>I tend to equate grounding with the folk notion of "knowing what you're
>>talking about."

>Fair enough, but don't forget that important class of systems, the
>"zombie" AI systems, which relate to the world via symbolic
>representations of it, but which can only metaphorically be said to
>"know what they are talking about", i.e., they can be correct in what
>they say, but there's `nobody at home', no consciousness.

...I'm just curious.  How do you know ?

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