The Meaning of Symbols

"It's rare that you have a single person that does all three very well," he says. "We often aquate meaning, meaning like one of what minsky calls a suit case word." In this view, the thing that connects the symbol to the real world is the ability to poke the cat or behave differently when the object changes,. So i f the cat moves, maybe your head turns because you recognize the cat, right? It's a very mechanistic view of meaning, but i can't think of a better one".