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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Intelligence Testing
Message-ID: <1992Jan28.190719.905@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 92 19:07:19 GMT
References: <11980@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <1992Jan28.152311.30787@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1992Jan28.165346.10909@psych.toronto.edu>
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In article <1992Jan28.165346.10909@psych.toronto.edu> michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar) writes:
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>Neil, I think it is *you* who do not understand.  The issue is *not* whether
>a computer can pass the Turing Test, but what such an accomplishment would
>*mean*.  I my view, this can *only* be uncovered by philosophical analysis, and
>*not* by empirical means. 

 No.  You don't understand.  Either that, or you are god.

 It is time enough for the philosophical analysis when there is a computer
which passes the Turing Test, and you have found out how it does it.  Until
then you are only philosophizing about the limits of your imagination, not
about the limits of the machine.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940


