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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. Projecting an interpretation onto
                                 a symbol system results in its being reflected back, in a spuriously
                                 self-confirming way.
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keywords: 'symbol systems, theory of mind, other-minds problem, Turing Test, hermeneutics, Strong Ai, computationalism, robotics'
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title: Lost in the hermeneutic hall of mirrors
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