Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!decuac!cvl!harwood From: harwood@cvl.umd.edu (David Harwood) Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: The symbol grounding problem - please start your own newsgroup Message-ID: <2328@cvl.umd.edu> Date: Sun, 5-Jul-87 17:48:28 EDT Article-I.D.: cvl.2328 Posted: Sun Jul 5 17:48:28 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 22:44:57 EDT References: <764@mind.UUCP> <768@mind.UUCP> <770@mind.UUCP> <6174@diamond.BBN.COM> <1337@watcgl.UUCP> <977@mind.UUCP> <2326@cvl.umd.edu> Reply-To: harwood@cvl.UUCP (David Harwood) Distribution: world Organization: Center for Automation Research, Univ. of Md. Lines: 32 Xref: mnetor comp.ai:630 comp.cog-eng:193 Letter sent by email to Stevan Harnad (with postscript added) re his postings to comp.ai about "the symbol grounding problem." 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. I heard from a student colleague, who is not opposed to a "cognitive science" viewpoint (if this means anything to you), that the first thing you did to explain your views at a recent colloquim was make reference to your net discussions. My oh my, either you are an modest comedian, or these dialogues of yours - why - if even they be blarney and posing of feathers - why they be verily verily immortal. You have made your views, whatever these are, resoundingly reknown - by, I suppose, half or more of the recent volume of comp.ai. I simply wish you'd pipe down for awhile, especially about your "symbol grounding problem." I will be especially verily verily glad to see you post the source code which implements your theoretical improvements; this should keep us off the streets for awhile; and I will try to be first to applaud your success. David Harwood Computer Vision Laboratory Center for Automation Research University of Maryland My views are simply my own. Please note all typos and mistakes, as I prepare to publish an edition (with permission which is surely forthcoming) of _Recent Contributions to the Dialogue de Problem Profundo Symbo-Grundo: New Foundations and New Vocations in Computer Science_. [This postscript added to my letter emailed S.H.]