@misc{cogprints1577, volume = {2}, title = {Lost in the hermeneutic hall of mirrors}, author = {Stevan Harnad}, year = {1990}, pages = {321--327}, journal = {Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence}, keywords = {symbol systems, theory of mind, other-minds problem, Turing Test, hermeneutics, Strong Ai, computationalism, robotics}, url = {http://cogprints.org/1577/}, abstract = {Critique of Computationalism as merely projecting hermeneutics (i.e., meaning originating from the mind of an external interpreter) onto otherwise intrinsically meaningless symbols. Projecting an interpretation onto a symbol system results in its being reflected back, in a spuriously self-confirming way.} }