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From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Turing Test ad infinitum
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Date: Wed, 29-Oct-86 13:31:18 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 29 13:31:18 1986
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Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Keywords: eliminative materialism
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     This endless discussion about the Turing Test makes the
"eliminative materialist" viewpoint very appealing:  by the
time we have achieved something that most people today would
call intelligent, we will have done it through disposing of
concepts such as "intelligence", "consciousness", etc.

     Perhaps the reason we're having so much trouble defining
a workable Turing Test is that we're essentially trying to
fit a square peg into a round hole, belabouring some point
which has less relevance than we realize.  I wonder what old
Alan himself would say about the whole mess.

--Jamie.
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