urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 5, Issue 41

James Wynn · 28 Jan 2005, 14:13 · from 2005-January.txt.gz

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From: thewynns at earthlink.net (James Wynn)
Date: Fri Jan 28 14:13:31 2005
Subject: (urth) Re: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 5, Issue 41
References: <20050128021632.7C65F395A at sitemail.everyone.net>
	<1f76173705012813136be35e88 at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <01cf01c50586$98ac6a80$4c1e4b0a at vcorp.ad.vrsn.com>

>>the imitation game taken literally is the same kind of reductionism
>>as behaviorism.
>
>The imitation game stands as the only empirical test thus far
>proposed for identifying a machine intelligence, if one should
>arise.

But the very term "the imitation game" suggests that in tFHoC maybe...just
maybe...long before the Long Sun and the Short Sun...Wolfe was considering
the Turing's postulates in terms of the validity of apparent consciousness
vs real consciousness.

~ Crush

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