RE: Turing test

Glenn Morton (grmorton@psyberlink.net)
Fri, 31 Jan 1997 22:49:50 -0600

At 05:42 PM 1/31/97 -0600, John E. Rylander wrote:

> (If anyone wants me to respond to the argument "Well, but how do you know
PEOPLE are conscious? By their behavior. So if computers behave the same
way, we should draw the same conclusions, unless we are (to use Hofstader's
delightful term) 'meat-based chauvinists'", let me know, but it may be
obvious how I'd reply based on my HAL comments.)

In light of the above, how would you go about determining which of the
hominids is human in a theological sense?

glenn

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