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Doing, Feeling, Meaning And Explaining

Doing, Feeling, Meaning And Explaining
Doing, Feeling, Meaning And Explaining
It is “easy” to explain doing, “hard” to explain feeling. Turing has set the agenda for the easy explanation (though it will be a long time coming). I will try to explain why and how explaining feeling will not only be hard, but impossible. Explaining meaning will prove almost as hard because meaning is a hybrid of know-how and what it feels like to know how.
doing, feeling, meaning, explaining, causation, Turing, robotics, computation, symbol grounding
Harnad, Stevan
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Harnad, Stevan
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Harnad, Stevan (2011) Doing, Feeling, Meaning And Explaining. On the Human, Online.

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Abstract

It is “easy” to explain doing, “hard” to explain feeling. Turing has set the agenda for the easy explanation (though it will be a long time coming). I will try to explain why and how explaining feeling will not only be hard, but impossible. Explaining meaning will prove almost as hard because meaning is a hybrid of know-how and what it feels like to know how.

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Published date: April 2011
Additional Information: Event Dates: April 2011
Venue - Dates: On the Human, Online, 2011-04-01
Keywords: doing, feeling, meaning, explaining, causation, Turing, robotics, computation, symbol grounding
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 272243
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/272243
PURE UUID: 8c806c93-8d06-41b4-b1d9-f2cc748f8360

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Date deposited: 04 May 2011 02:21
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 09:50

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Author: Stevan Harnad

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