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abstract: 'It is “easy” to explain doing, “hard” to explain feeling. Turing has set the agenda for the easy explanation (though it will be a long time coming). I will try to explain why and how explaining feeling will not only be hard, but impossible. Explaining meaning will prove almost as hard because meaning is a hybrid of know-how and what it feels like to know how. '
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confdates: April 2011
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keywords: 'doing, feeling, meaning, explaining, causation, Turing, robotics, computation, symbol grounding'
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referencetext: "Harnad, Stevan (1990) The Symbol Grounding Problem Physica D 42: 335-346.\r\n\r\nHarnad, Stevan(1995) Why and How We Are Not Zombies. Journal of Consciousness Studies 1:164-167.\r\n\r\nHarnad, Stevan (2001) Spielberg’s AI: Another Cuddly No-Brainer.\r\n\r\nHarnad, Stevan (2007) From Knowing How To Knowing That: Acquiring Categories By Word of Mouth. Presented at Kaziemierz Naturalized Epistemology Workshop (KNEW), Kaziemierz, Poland, 2 September 2007.\r\n\r\nHarnad, Stevan (2008) The Annotation Game: On Turing (1950) on Computing, Machinery and Intelligence. In: Epstein, Robert & Peters, Grace (Eds.) Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer. Springer\r\nHarnad, Stevan (2010) From Sensorimotor Categories and Pantomime to Grounded Symbols and Propositions. In: Handbook of Language Evolution, Oxford University Press.\r\n\r\nHarnad, Stevan (2011) Minds, Brains and Turing. Consciousness Online.\r\n\r\nO’Callaghan, C. (2011) Against Hearing Meanings. The Philosophical Quarterly. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2011.704.x\r\n\r\nOvergaard, Morton (2011) Visual experience and blindsight: a methodological review. Experimental Brain Research 209(4): 473-9\r\n\r\nSearle, John R. (1980) Minds, brains, and programs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (3): 417-57\r\n\r\nStrawson, Galen (2011) Cognitive phenomenology: real life. In T. Bayne & M. Montague (eds.): Cognitive Phenomenology. Oxford University Press\r\n\r\nTuring, A.M. (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind 49: 433-60\r\n"
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title: 'Doing, Feeling, Meaning And Explaining'
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