Symbol Grounding and Computation
What about the meaning of a word inside a computer? Is it like the word on the page or like the word in one's head? This is where the Symbol Grounding Problem comes in. Is a dynamic process transpiring in a computer more like the static paper page, or more like another dynamical system, the brain?
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