Symbol Grounding And Symbol Tethering

Philosopher Aaron Sloman claims that symbol grounding is impossible. I say it is possible, indeed necessary, for strong AI. Yet my own approach may be compatible with Sloman's.Sloman equates "symbol grounding" with concept empiricism, thus rendering it impossible. However, I don't see the need to equate all symbol grounding to concept empiricism. And what Sloman calls "symbol tethering" may be what I call "symbol grounding," or at least a type of symbol grounding.Firstly, as Sloman says about concept empiricism [1]:Kant refuted this in 1781, roughly by arguing that experience without prior concepts (e.g. of space, time, ordering, causation) is impossible. read more

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