On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:52 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Machines (Humanly Constructed Artifacts) Cannot Think >> <http://edge.org/response-detail/26060> >> <http://edge.org/memberbio/arnold_trehub> >> Arnold Trehub <http://edge.org/memberbio/arnold_trehub> >> >> >> >> Well, I have an answer to this one, at least. Humans are machines - are, >> in fact, humanly constructed artifacts - hence whether machines can think >> is the same as whether humans can think. >> >> Has anyone seen "The Imitation Game" by the way? >> >> > > I like that answer. > > I saw the imitation game and liked it a lot. > > As a side note, I didn't think the answer Turing gave in the movie to the question of whether or not machines could think was at all how Turing really would have really answered as evidenced by his publications. I would think his answer would be more like the one you provided above. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
