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Nowhere did I make that claim. You're clearly confused about the arguments being made so I suggest your reread this thread.
> And what decides what symbol corresponds to what real object?
An inductive inference algorithm, like I said.
> This is a laughable argument. "We reproduce (as living beings do). therefore we create minds".
Exactly right. Therefore your claim that we must understand something before we can make it is trivially incorrect.
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Nowhere did I make that claim. You're clearly confused about the arguments being made so I suggest your reread this thread.
> And what decides what symbol corresponds to what real object?
An inductive inference algorithm, like I said.
> This is a laughable argument. "We reproduce (as living beings do). therefore we create minds".
Exactly right. Therefore your claim that we must understand something before we can make it is trivially incorrect.