<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "Computation Is Just Interpretable Symbol Manipulation: Cognition Isn't"^^ . "Computation is interpretable symbol manipulation. Symbols are objects that are manipulated on the basis of rules\noperating only on the symbols' shapes , which are arbitrary in relation to what they can be interpreted as meaning. Even if one\naccepts the Church/Turing Thesis that computation is unique, universal and very near omnipotent, not everything is a computer,\nbecause not everything can be given a systematic interpretation; and certainly everything can't be given every systematic\ninterpretation. But even after computers and computation have been successfully distinguished from other kinds of things, mental\nstates will not just be the implementations of the right symbol systems, because of the symbol grounding problem: The\ninterpretation of a symbol system is not intrinsic to the system; it is projected onto it by the interpreter. This is not true of our\nthoughts. We must accordingly be more than just computers. My guess is that the meanings of our symbols are grounded in the\nsubstrate of our robotic capacity to interact with that real world of objects, events and states of affairs that our symbols are\nsystematically interpretable as being about. "^^ . "1994" . . "4" . . "Minds and Machines"^^ . . . . . . . . "Stevan"^^ . "Harnad"^^ . "Stevan Harnad"^^ . . . . . . "Computation Is Just Interpretable Symbol Manipulation: Cognition Isn't (HTML)"^^ . . . "harnad94.computation.cognition.html"^^ . . . "Computation Is Just Interpretable Symbol Manipulation: Cognition Isn't (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #1592 \n\nComputation Is Just Interpretable Symbol Manipulation: Cognition Isn't\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Cognitive Psychology" . . . "Artificial Intelligence" . . . "Neural Nets" . . . "Robotics" . . . "Philosophy of Mind" . .