PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Turing Test, Intentionality, Virtual Image
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If a computer can fool a human interlocutor that the computer is a human being, then the computer has consciousness (in the original "imitation. Game", there is an observer who is instructed to find out which interlocutor is a computer) In carrying a conversation, if a computer"s way of using intentional language (ex. It is raining today) is indistinguishable from someone who is certified in advance to be speaking the same language, then the computer has intentionality. Determines whether a computer can be counted as an intelligent being. Is the turing test for reference a definitive test for shared reference. Even if a computer has all the syntax and grammar rules of the language, it is logically possible that the computer fails to refer to anything. There is nothing in turing"s test to rule out a machine that is programmed to do nothing but play the imitation game.
