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From: john@publications.ccc.monash.edu.au (John Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Turing Test: opinions on an idea
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Date: 16 May 91 23:06:40 GMT
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In article <1991May16.102046.2063@cs.ruu.nl> nrasch@cs.ruu.nl (Menno Rasch)
writes:
>The conclusion is clear: Computers an human-beiings can not be compared!!
>
Balderdash. Anything and anything can be compared. What is instructive are the
differences between two items that are supposedly of the same kind. In trying
to compare human thought and computer processing, we may
1. discover the processes that give rise to thought; or
2. improve the capacities of computers as we learn more about the models of
thought; or
3. both.

I'm plugging for 3.