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Critique of Computationalism as merely projecting hermeneutics
(i.e., meaning originating from the mind of an external interpreter) onto
otherwise intrinsically meaningless symbols.
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commref: Eric Dietrich's Computationalism
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keywords: 'computationalism, artificial intelligence, symbol manipulation, symbol grounding, subjective states, functionalism'
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title: Against Computational Hermeneutics
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