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Stevan Harnad
A cognitive scientist who formally proposed the Symbol Grounding Problem in a 1990 paper in Physica D, and an important scholar in the foundations of cognitive science and AI.
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Oct 16
Harnad uses a variant of the Chinese room thought experiment to show that relying solely on mutual definition between symbols leads to infinite regress.
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Aug 28
The symbol grounding problem was formally proposed by cognitive scientist Stevan Harnad in 1990.
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