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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Cognitive viruses (was: Re: Conciousness)
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Date: 10 May 91 15:55:31 GMT
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Steve Elmer writes:
 > Has anybody ever invented a Turing test for self-awareness? 
 > 
 > Adding an elment of the double blind test would also increase my confidence
 > in the results.  If none of the subjects (including the computer(s)) were
 > aware of the nature of the test, I would think the results could be considered
 > reliable.
 > 
 > Once such a test was established and the rules were made static, perhaps we
 > could at least measure our progress.
 > 
 > (Just a thought :)

Somebody else said...

|Now,  supposing a system  has been built which  "passes" the test. Why
|not take  the process  one stage  further?  Why not  try to design  an
|intelligent system which can decide whether *it* is talking to machine
|or not?

Is that the same?
Gordon.
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