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From: eliot@mind.UUCP (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Human-human communication
Message-ID: <2535@mind.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 88 12:41:39 GMT
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In article <2534@mind.UUCP> ghh@clarity.UUCP (Gilbert Harman) writes:
>An even harder problem:

>	How does one verbally explain what the color blue is to
>	a stone?
>		       Gilbert Harman
>                       Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory
>	               221 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542


We've already done that. We've run into trouble testing the stone's knowledge,
though.


Eliot Handelman
Music & Cognition Group
Department of Music
Princeton University