Brad;We don't need no stinkin' grounding.
Your intention, I take it, is partly humorous. You are self-consciously
assuming the persona of an angry child/adolescent. How do I know that
without being grounded in real world conversations? How can you understand
the prosody of language generally without being grounded in conversations?
How can I otherwise know that you do not literally mean that grounding
"stinks" like a carcase? What language does not have prosody?
How am I able to proceed to the following analysis of your sentence without
grounding? .."Brad's sentence reveals a fascinating example of the workings
of the unconscious mind. He has assumed in one sentence the persona of a
wilful child. In effect, his unconscious mind is commenting on his conscious
position : "I know that I am being wilful in demanding that AGI be
conducted purely in language/symbols - demanding like a child that the
world conform to my wishes and convenience (because, frankly, I only know
how to do AI that is language- and symbol-based, and having to learn new
sign systems would be jolly inconvenient, and I'm too lazy, so there)".
There's a lot more to language than meets the eye - or could ever meet the
eye of a non-grounded AGI.
P.S. I would suggest as a matter of practice here that anyone who wants to
argue a position should ALWAYS PROVIDE AN EXAMPLE OR TWO - of say a sentence
or even a single word that they think can be understood with or without
grounding. (Sorry Bob M., I think that's worth shouting about). Argument
without examples here should be regarded as shoddy, inferior intellectual
practice.
P.P.S. A possible further example of the workings of the unconscious mind.
Is it possible that your sentence has an echo - *in your mind* - of Pink
Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall with "We don't need no education" ?
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