Re: Recursive Searles, or what?

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From: Chris Malcolm
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 20:27

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In article <GILHAM.90Jan9100839@cassius.csl.sri.com> gilham@csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) writes:

>The consensus seems to be that some ``pattern'' is doing the understanding.

 ....

>The alternatives seem to be that either a pattern has some independent
>existence of its own (concrete reality) or a mind is necessary to
>perceive it.  On the one hand, I say we have dualism; on the other
>hand, I say we have the ``hermeneutical hall of mirrors'', where we
>project our own thought processes onto something in the outside world.

Ok. So how do you explain mathematics, or even humble numbers, without
recourse to dualism or the hermeneutic hall of mirrors?
-- 
Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aipna   031 667 1011 x2550
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK

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From: cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
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Subject: Re: Recursive Searles, or what?
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Date: 15 Jan 90 20:27:45 GMT
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