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0 pointshnfong1d ago0 comments

> Turing's test is a famous example

Ironically, the Turing test is the OG functionalist approach. The GP's comment basically sums up with the Turing test was designed for.

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eru1d ago

Yes, but I interpret Turing's paper not as saying "souls don't matter", but as "here's a good proxy that we can actually measure".

(I don't know what Turing's opinion on souls is, and it doesn't matter for that paper!)

hnfongOP1d ago

I think it's generally accepted that Turing thinks soul doesn't matter when we try to determine whether things have intelligence/ability to think.

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