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From: berleant@ut-sally.UUCP (Dan Berleant)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: The symbol grounding problem
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Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 18:23:25 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  3 18:23:25 1987
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In article <956@mind.UUCP> harnad@mind.UUCP (Stevan Harnad) writes:
>Episodic memory -- rote memory for input experiences -- has the same
>liability as any purely iconic approach: It can't generate category
>boundaries where there is significant interconfusability among
>categories of episodes.

Are you assuming a representation of episodes (more generally,
exemplars) that is iconic rather than symbolic? Also, *no* category
representation method can generate category boundaries when there is
significant interconfusability among categories!

Dan Berleant
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