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From: rggoebel@watdragon.UUCP (Randy Goebel LPAIG)
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Subject: Re: Searle, Turing, Symbols, Categories
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Stevan Harnad writes:
> ...The objective of the turing test is to judge whether the candidate
> has a mind, not whether it is human or drinks motor oil.

This stuff is getting silly.  I doubt that it is possible to test whether
something has a mind, unless you provide a definition of what you believe
a mind is.  Turing's test wasn't a test for whether or not some artificial
or natural entity had a mind. It was his prescription for an evaluation of
intelligence.