Abstract Searle's Chinese Room Argument (that rule-based symbol manipulation is not
enough for symbol-understanding) is based on a symptom of the Symbol Grounding …

A computer program is a semantically interpretable formal symbol system consisting of rules
for manipulating symbols on the basis of their shapes, which are arbitrary in relation to what …

In response to Searle's well-known Chinese room argument against Strong AI (and more
generally, computationalism), Harnad proposed that if the symbols manipulated by a robot …

This paper presents an approach to solve the symbol grounding problem within the
framework of embodied cognitive science. It will be argued that symbolic structures can be …

" Symbol Grounding" is beginning to mean too many things to too many people. My own
construal has always been simple: Cognition cannot be just computation, because …

The new wave in robotics research began to blossom in the mid-1980's with the
convergence of a number of seemingly diverse research trends. All of these were inspired …

Classical cognitive science assumes that intelligently behaving systems must be symbol
processors that are implemented in physical systems such as brains or digital computers. By …

This chapter presents the Cognitive Symbol Grounding framework for the grounding of
language into perception, cognition and action. This approach is characterized by the …

Computation is interpretable symbol manipulation. Symbols are objects that are
manipulated on the basis of rules operating only on their shapes, which are arbitrary in …

In the nineteen eighties, a lot of ink was spent on the question of symbol grounding, largely
triggered by Searle's Chinese Room story (Searle, 1980). Searle's article had the advantage …