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" Is this new question a worthy one to investigate?' This latter question we investigate without further ado, thereby cutting short an infinite regress. The new problem has the advantage of drawing a fairly sharp line between the physical and the intellectual... "
Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the ... - Page 27
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Can Animals and Machines be Persons?: A Dialogue

Justin Leiber - Philosophy - 1985 - 102 pages
...caricature oi traditional knglish schoolboy attitudes! Let me read you what he said about the Turing test. The new problem has the advantage of drawing a fairly...produce a material which is indistinguishable from human skin. It is possible that at some time this might be done, but even supposing this invention...
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The Muse in the Machine: Computerizing the Poetry of Human Thought

David Gelernter - Psychology - 2010 - 224 pages
...context) that, if the topic were, say, human skin, and not merely the mind, all bets would be off. "No engineer or chemist claims to be able to produce...possible that at some time this might be done" — but there are no prior logical grounds for believing that it will ever happen (Turing 1950, 434). One last...
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After Modernity: Husserlian Reflections on a Philosophical Tradition

James R. Mensch - Philosophy - 1996 - 324 pages
...caused fact ignores an important distinction. Turing seems to have had it in mind when he advocated "drawing a fairly sharp line between the physical and the intellectual capacities of a man." There was, he remarked, "little point in trying to make a 'thinking machine' more human by dressing...
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Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence

John Haugeland - Psychology - 1997 - 500 pages
...is played between a man and a woman? These questions replace our original, "Can machines think?" 2 Critique of the new problem As well as asking, "What...there was little point in trying to make a "thinking machine" more human by dressing it up in such artificial flesh. The form in which we have set the problem...
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A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind: Readings with Commentary

Peter A. Morton - Philosophy - 1996 - 522 pages
...is played between a man and a woman? These questions replace our original, "Can machines think?" 2. Critique of the New Problem As well as asking, "What...there was little point in trying to make a "thinking machine" more human by dressing it up in such artificial CHAPTER 10 flesh. The form in which we have...
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Speaking Into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication

John Durham Peters - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 308 pages
...unclear, a question that remains central to the subsequent history of artificial intelligence). "This new problem has the advantage of drawing a fairly...physical and the intellectual capacities of a man." The ground on which machines might compete is intelligence, not embodiment. "No engineer or chemist...
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Artificial Intelligence: Critical Concepts, Volume 2

Ronald Chrisley, Sander Begeer - Computers - 2000 - 608 pages
...is played between a man and a woman? These questions replace our original, 'Can machines think?' 2 Critique of the new problem As well as asking, 'What...there was little point in trying to make a 'thinking machine' more human by dressing it up in such artificial flesh. The form in which we have set the problem...
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The World of Mathematics, Volume 4

James Roy Newman - Mathematics - 2000 - 486 pages
...These questions replace our original, 'Can machines think?' 2. CRITIQUE OF THE NEW PROBLEM As wel! as asking, 'What is the answer to this new form of...there was little point in trying to make a 'thinking machine' more human by dressing it up in such artificial flesh. The form in which we have set the problem...
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The World of Mathematics, Volume 4

James Roy Newman - Mathematics - 2000 - 486 pages
...is played between a man and a woman? These questions replace our original, 'Can machines think?' 2. CRITIQUE OF THE NEW PROBLEM As well as asking, 'What...indistinguishable from the human skin. It is possible that at some lime this might be done, but even supposing this invention available we should feel there was little...
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The Algorithmic Composer

David Cope - Music - 2000 - 320 pages
...human perceptions to determine the source of the answers. Turing replies that it is important to draw a fairly sharp line between the physical and the intellectual capacities of a man. . . . We do not wish to penalize the machine for its inability to shine in beauty competitions, nor...
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