creators_name: Harnad, Stevan
type: journalp
datestamp: 2001-06-18
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:40
metadata_visibility: show
title: Lost in the hermeneutic hall of mirrors
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: symbol systems, theory of mind, other-minds problem, Turing Test, hermeneutics, Strong Ai, computationalism, robotics
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.
date: 1990
date_type: published
publication: Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
volume: 2
pagerange: 321-327
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Harnad, Stevan  (1990) Lost in the hermeneutic hall of mirrors.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/1577/1/harnad90.dyer.crit.html