Physical Symbol Systems
TL;DR: In this paper, the nature of physical symbol systems is laid out in ways familiar, but not thereby useless, to review the basis of common understanding between the various disciplines.
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About: This article is published in Cognitive Science. The article was published on 01 Apr 1980. and is currently open access. The article focuses on the topics: Symbol grounding & Symbol.
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