harnad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (S. R. Harnad) (01/18/90)
Two talks at MIT by Stevan Harnad
TUESDAY JANUARY 23
10 am and 2 pm
Building 37: Room 37-212
(1) Searle's Chinese Room and the Symbol Grounding Problem
10 am Room 37-212
A discussion of the connection between Searle's celebrated thought
experiment and a very deep problem in philosophy and in cognitive
modeling: How are our symbols connected to the objects they stand for?
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(2) Grounding Symbols in Sensory Category Learning
2 pm Room 37-212
In "categorical perception," a continuous sensory dimension is
perceived as bounded "chunks." Could sensory categories, and the
feature-detectors that pick them out, be the groundwork of cognition?
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Stevan Harnad Department of Psychology Princeton University
harnad@clarity.princeton.edu srh@flash.bellcore.com
harnad@elbereth.rutgers.edu harnad@pucc.bitnet (609)-921-7771