There's now a nice YouTube video explaining the symbol grounding problem.
Fun fact I met him in Berlin like 6 years ago and he was nice. The paper has a lot of citations.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dent
“How can the semantic interpretation of a formal symbol system be made intrinsic to the system, rather than just parasitic on the meanings in our heads? How can the meanings of the meaningless symbol tokens, manipulated solely on the basis of their (arbitrary) shapes, be grounded in anything but other meaningless symbols”.
(Steven Harnad, The Symbol Grounding Problem, 1990)
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