RE: Questions about any Would-Be AGI

From: ben goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 14:49:27 MDT


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Of course, some
GOFAI philosophers are famous for insisting that the relations between words
constitute the whole of any one word's meaning, but as you know, I think
that the perceptual patterns invoked by words also have something to do with
it.
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I think this perspective on meaning dates to Ferdinand de Saussure, actually.

A *very* old-fashioned AI philosopher ;> ... predating computers for example!

ben g



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