this can be easily argued by looking at the demos of stochastic ANNs used for various perception tasks. for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LTG64s6Xuc
patterns of characters images that emerge during simulations can be thought of as symbols
You think of a heap of stones as symbols too. The question is whether you can implement a symbolic system with it or not. The answer is no.
The paper discusses what you need for a symbolic system, and why it doesn't exist in the brain.
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Having multiple groups reject your paper and not being able to publish your paper is not a good sign. http://human-brain.org/brain-symbols-index.html
this can be easily argued by looking at the demos of stochastic ANNs used for various perception tasks. for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LTG64s6Xuc patterns of characters images that emerge during simulations can be thought of as symbols
You think of a heap of stones as symbols too. The question is whether you can implement a symbolic system with it or not. The answer is no. The paper discusses what you need for a symbolic system, and why it doesn't exist in the brain.