In contrast, he wished to argue that such an imitation principle did apply to ‘thinking’ or ‘intelligence’. If a computer, on the basis of its written replies to questions, could not be distinguished from a human respondent, then ‘fair play’ would oblige one to say that it must be ‘thinking’. This being a philosophical paper, he produced an argument in favour of adopting the imitation principle as a criterion.
Copy Machine
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Father Wound
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Testable Thinking
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Tinkering Sanctuary
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