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From: colonel@buffalo.CSNET ("Col. G. L. Sicherman")
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Subject: Re: turing test
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Date: Fri, 31-Oct-86 00:54:58 EST
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Summary: Turing's original article--why

PHayes@SRI-KL.ARPA (Pat Hayes) writes:
> Daniel R. Simon has worries about the Turing test.  A good place to find
> intelligent discussion of these issues is Turings original article in MIND,
> October 1950, v.59, pages 433 to 460. 

That article was in part a response to G. Jefferson's Lister Oration,
which appeared as "The mind of mechanical man" in the British Medical
Journal for 1949 (pp. 1105-1121).  It's well worth reading in its own
right.  Jefferson presents the humane issues at least as well as Turing
presents the scientific issues, and I think that Turing failed to
rebut, or perhaps to comprehend, all Jefferson's objections.