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abstract: 'Darwin/Skinner/Turing explanation is all a blind, behavioral explanation. It explains the underlying causal mechanisms of what we can do. But it cannot and cannot explain what (or that) we feel.'
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   Cangelosi, A. & Harnad, S. (2001) The Adaptive Advantage of Symbolic Theft Over Sensorimotor Toil: Grounding Language in Perceptual Categories. Evolution of Communication 4(1)
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  Dawkins, R. (1976) The selfish gene. Oxford : Oxford University Press
  
  Dawkins, R. (1986) The blind watchmaker. New York : Norton
  
  Harnad, S. (1987) (Ed.) Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition . New York: Cambridge University Press. http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/15/71/index.html
  
  Harnad, S. (1990) The Symbol Grounding Problem Physica D 42: 335-346. "A Szimbolum-Lehorgonyzas Problemaja." Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle XLVIII-XLIX (32-33) 5-6: 365-383. http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/06/15/index.html
  
  Harnad, S. (2000) Minds, Machines, and Turing: The Indistinguishability of Indistinguishables. Journal of Logic, Language, and Information 9(4): 425-445. (special issue on "Alan Turing and Artificial Intelligence") http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/16/16/index.html
  
  Harnad, S. (2002) Turing Indistinguishability and the Blind Watchmaker. In: J. Fetzer (ed.) Evolving Consciousness Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp 3-18. http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/16/15/index.html
  
  Harnad, S, Steklis, HD and Lancaster, JB. (1976) (Eds.) Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 280. http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/08/66/index.html
  
  Skinner, B. F. (1984) Selection by consequences. Behavioral & Brain Sciences 4: 477-510.
  
  Turing, A.M. (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind 49 433-460 http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000499/ 
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