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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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referencetext: |-
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  NJ: Erlbaum Associates 
  
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  Cambridge University Press. 
  
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  Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 1: 5 - 25. 
  
  Harnad, S. (1990) The Symbol Grounding Problem. Physica D (in press) 
  
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  Incarnation of an Old Philosophical Problem. 
  
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  417 - 547. 
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title: Against Computational Hermeneutics
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