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Terrence Deacon: Origins of Life, Consciousness, Entropy, and Sentience

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Words, Machines, and Meaning

This chapter explores how children learn word meanings through an interpretive process involving iconic and indexical features while addressing the challenges of the symbol grounding problem in artificial intelligence. It examines the relationship between machines and sentience, emphasizing the limits of machine learning in understanding the true meanings behind patterns.

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