?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Symbol+Grounding+is+an+Empirical+Problem%3A+Neural+Nets+are+Just+a+Candidate+Component&rft.creator=Harnad%2C+Stevan&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Dynamical+Systems&rft.subject=Neural+Nets&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=%22Symbol+Grounding%22+is+beginning+to+mean+too+many+things+to+too+many+people.+My+own+construal+has+always%0Abeen+simple%3A+Cognition+cannot+be+just+computation%2C+because+computation+is+just+the+systematically+interpretable+manipulation+of%0Ameaningless+symbols%2C+whereas+the+meanings+of+my+thoughts+don't+depend+on+their+interpretability+or+interpretation+by+someone%0Aelse.+On+pain+of+infinite+regress%2C+then%2C+symbol+meanings+must+be+grounded+in+something+other+than+just+their+interpretability+if+they%0Aare+to+be+candidates+for+what+is+going+on+in+our+heads.+Neural+nets+may+be+one+way+to+ground+the+names+of+concrete+objects+and%0Aevents+in+the+capacity+to+categorize+them+(by+learning+the+invariants+in+their+sensorimotor+projections).+These+grounded%0Aelementary+symbols+could+then+be+combined+into+symbol+strings+expressing+propositions+about+more+abstract+categories.%0AGrounding+does+not+equal+meaning%2C+however%2C+and+does+not+solve+any+philosophical+problems.+&rft.date=1993&rft.type=Other&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1588%2F1%2Fharnad93.cogsci.html&rft.identifier=++Harnad%2C+Stevan++(1993)+Symbol+Grounding+is+an+Empirical+Problem%3A+Neural+Nets+are+Just+a+Candidate+Component.++++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1588%2F