The Empiricist Reply
Empirical evidence suggests semantics can emerge from low-level syntax—e.g. a barcode reader. Similarly, high-level semantics may emerge from a robot with a self organising network that makes reasonable inferences from implicit information.
For example, a barcode reader is purely syntactic at a low-level, but at a higher level it represents information about how barcodes relate to sales, inventory and so forth.


James Moor, 1988.
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Yes: physical symbol systems can think [3] »Yes: physical symbol systems can think [3]
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The Chinese Room Argument [4] »The Chinese Room Argument [4]
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The Syntax-Semantics Barrier »The Syntax-Semantics Barrier
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