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From: cam@edai.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.edai   031 667 1011 x2550)
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Subject: Re: Turing Test and Subject Bias
Message-ID: <407@edai.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Jun 89 12:09:40 GMT
References: <3018@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1108@hydra.cs.Helsinki.FI> <3039@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
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In article <3039@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton) writes:

>In Turing's day, it was not as unreasonable to think of 'intelligence'
>as an out-there in-agents property.
>
>The term has no role today apart from common sense approbation.
>

Would you say the same sort of thing about 'consciousness'? Knowledge?
Belief? 

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Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.edai   031 667 1011 x2550
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK