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From: jps@cat.cmu.edu (James Salsman)
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Subject: Re: Tech Report: Symbol Grounding Problem
Keywords: connectionism language categorization Searle symbol-systems
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Date: 5 Aug 89 08:51:08 GMT
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In article <9753@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> harnad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (S. R. Harnad) writes:

>             THE SYMBOL GROUNDING PROBLEM

No problem.

The    |         /"Iconic"\  Distributed  /    \        /    \Predicates &/
Outside|--------<  Buffer  >-------------< EPAM >------< SOAR >----------< LTM
World  | Signals \  STM   / Representation\    / Symbols\    / Productions\
                           [1]              [2]           [3]

[1] Rumelhart D., McClelland J., et. al., "Parallel Distributed Processing,"
      MIT Press, 1986
[2] Richman, H., and Simon, H., "Context Effects in Letter Perception:
      Comparison of Two Theories," Psychological Review, 1989, v96n3p417.
[3] Laird, J., Newell, A., and Rosenbloom, P., "Soar: An Architecture for
      General Intelligence," Artificial Intelligence, 1987 vol. 33.

:James

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