Having considered the objections, let's look at methods: *how* might a language-driven agent without a body do symbol grounding?
https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2023/06/sgp-part-v-symbol-grounding-for.html
@WriterOfMinds These days I make a distinction between internally grounded (patterns within the system have consequences to the system itself) vs externally grounded (we, as external observer, share consequences of patterns within the system). For a lot of ALife open-endedness stuff, systems have only internal grounding (species A makes this particular camouflage pattern by species B meaningful). So it can be difficult from outside the system to perceive the meaningfulness of those patterns.