> The misunderstanding that leads to belief in strong AI is that meaning is somehow embedded in the symbols used to communicate it yet you have Roget's thesaur

> The misunderstanding that leads to belief in strong AI is that meaning is somehow embedded in the symbols used to communicate it yet you have Roget's thesaurus, where words are grouped into sets of words that have a similar meaning; it might make a difference when dealing in terms of these categories, instead of dealing with word instances; i mean if you have a dependency graph of a sentence, and the nodes are the corresponding sets in the thesaurus, then you might get a similar, but more general interpretation of that sentence. (i once had a project for parsing/representing Roget's thesaurus in python: https://github.com/MoserMichael/roget-thesaurus-parser https://github.com/MoserMichael/roget-thesaurus-parser There are probably other projects like that around)