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"The Computer Knows What the Words Mean"

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A rule system's labels are for people — replace every atom with a serial number and every derivation runs identically, step for step.

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Rename "yellow_leaves" to "p14" throughout a knowledge base and nothing in the machine's behavior changes.

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The meaning — leaves, water, the worried owner — lives entirely in the humans who chose the labels.

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