… I will be making below about the need to ground symbols may be relevant not only for cognitive
… : Certain forms of performance may be unattainable from 'ungrounded' symbol systems. …

… duction, if we interpret his “analog world' to mean the world of physics, which is dominated
by continuous variables, and we assume the output of the transducers are discrete symbols. …

… I will be making below about the need to ground symbols may be relevant not only for cognitive
… : Certain forms of performance may be unattainable from "ungrounded" symbol systems. …

… that the symbols and symbol manipulations in a symbol system … below about the need to
ground symbols may be relevant not … may be unattainable from ``ungrounded'' symbol systems. …

… the meaningless symbol tokens, manipulated solely on the basis of their (arbitrary) shapes,
be grounded in anything but other meaningless symbols? The problem is analogous to trying …

… symbols that are grounded in the world. Its sensory apparatus, and even its iconic memory,
would need to be primarily analog. … into its analog working memory. Thus the memory of the …

… our external world (Roy, in press). The physical symbol grounding problem consists in the
individual’s cognitive ability to create such links. The social symbol grounding problem, as …

… So we can't just assume their presence by fiat In the hybrid architecture I advocate, there
is a second source of constraints (analogous to Regier's) on grounded symbol systems, over …

… These results support the Indexical Hypothesis that the meaning of a sentence is constructed
by (a) indexing words and phrases to real objects or perceptual, analog symbols; (b) …

… So, how does syntactic computationalism, thus understood, fare with our problem of symbol
grounding? The problem for a computationalist is that she has to construct a causal chain …