creators_name: Harnad, Stevan
editors_name: Comstock, Gary 
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2011-05-04 02:33:08
lastmod: 2011-05-04 02:33:08
metadata_visibility: show
title: Doing, Feeling, Meaning And Explaining
ispublished: pub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: comp-sci-robot
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: doing, feeling, meaning, explaining, causation, Turing, robotics, computation, symbol grounding
abstract: It is “easy” to explain doing, “hard” to explain feeling. Turing has set the agenda for the easy explanation (though it will be a long time coming). I will try to explain why and how explaining feeling will not only be hard, but impossible. Explaining meaning will prove almost as hard because meaning is a hybrid of know-how and what it feels like to know how. 
date: 2011-04
date_type: published
publisher: National Humanities Center
refereed: FALSE
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citation:   Harnad, Stevan  (2011) Doing, Feeling, Meaning And Explaining.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/7335/1/mindsbrainsturing.pdf