Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ll-xn!husc6!bloom-beacon!bolasov From: bolasov@athena.mit.edu (Benjamin I Olasov) Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: The symbol grounding problem - please start your own newsgroup Message-ID: <1071@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: Sun, 5-Jul-87 22:19:01 EDT Article-I.D.: bloom-be.1071 Posted: Sun Jul 5 22:19:01 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Jul-87 00:42:41 EDT References: <764@mind.UUCP> <768@mind.UUCP> <770@mind.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: bolasov@aphrodite.UUCP (Benjamin I Olasov) Distribution: world Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 19 Xref: mnetor comp.ai:631 comp.cog-eng:194 In article <2328@cvl.umd.edu> harwood@cvl.UUCP (David Harwood) writes: > I don't want you to quit posting altogether - I would just like >you to realize that you are hogging comp.ai with what seems, to me at least, >to be mostly pompous and unintelligible postings, that have very little to >do with computer science. ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ This point should not need to be made, but this newsgroup doesn't deal exclusively with computer science issues per se. Many important contributions to AI, after all, have come from outside the field of CS, as conventionally understood- much of Marvin Minsky's research for example, is not restricted to CS, and yet has significant implications for AI. Some of the most challenging and interesting problems of AI are philosophical in nature. I frankly don't see why this fact should disturb anyone. Perhaps if more of us pursued our theoretical models with comparable rigor to that with which Mr. Harnad pursues his, the balance of topics represented on comp.ai might shift .....