%A Stevan Harnad %J Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence %T Lost in the hermeneutic hall of mirrors %X 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. %K symbol systems, theory of mind, other-minds problem, Turing Test, hermeneutics, Strong Ai, computationalism, robotics %P 321-327 %V 2 %D 1990 %L cogprints1577