Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Turing Test, Electrical Network, Chemical Castration
20 Mar 2016
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Bones and joints obey principles of mechanics. Breathing is a ventilation system; lungs work like bellows. Many people have thought that there is a crucial difference between machines and people. Here is descartes on the subject (from his discourse on method): For we can certainly conceive of a machine so constructed that it utters words, and even utters words that correspond to bodily actions causing a change in its organs. Humans are distinguished from machines by having (cid:1: language, and especially linguistic creativity (cid:1, reason, shown by adaptability to unforeseen situations. And these two really seem to come to the same thing. Adaptive creativity, or more over analysis creativity (cid:1) (cid:1) He thinks the question is false: turing test. Devised in 1950 by a british mathematician, computer scientist, and cryptanalyst(breaking codes) Was one of the founders of computer science in the english speaking world and also a major player in the cryptanalyst term that deciphered the german enigma code.
