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June 2004
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The Turing Test
Verbal Behavior as the Hallmark of Intelligence
Edited by Stuart Shieber

Editorial Notesxiii
Introduction
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1
IPrecursors15
The Bête Machine17
1Discourse on the Method, Chapter V
René Descartes
23
If Animals Could Talk31
2Letter to the Marquess of Newcastle
René Descartes
35
The Homme Machine39
3Selections from Machine Man
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
45
IITuring's Test59
Computer Technology61
4Computing Machinery and Intelligence
A. M. Turing
67
The Ephemera97
5Intelligent Machinery and Intelligence
A. M. Turing
105
6Can Digital Computers Think?
A. M. Turing
111
7Can Automatic Calculating Machines Be Said to Think?
M. H. A. Newman, A. M. Turing, Sir Geoffrey Jefferson and R. B. Braithwaite
117
IIIPhilosophical Reaction and the Mind Responsa133
Immediate Responses135
Can Machines Have Neuroses?141
8Do Machines Think about Machines Thinking
Leonard Pinsky
143
The Wedge and the Spark147
9The Imitation Game
Keith Gunderson
151
Early Harbingers of Later Issues163
10Beating the Imitation Game
Richard Purtill
165
11In Defence of Turing
Geoffrey Sampson
173
12On the Point of the Imitation Game
P. H. Millar
177
Turing Test Chauvinism181
13Subcognition and the Limits of the Turing Test
Robert M. French
183
The Spark of Intentionality199
14Minds, Brains, and Programs
John R. Searle
201
The Spark of Richness of Information Processing225
15Psychologism and Behaviorism
Ned Block
229
The Supporting View267
16Can Machines Think?
Daniel C. Dennett
269
The Turing Test's Evidentiary Value293
17An Analysis of the Turing Test
James H. Moor
297
18Why Machines Can't Think: A Reply to James Moor
Douglas F. Stalker
307
19Explaining Computer Behavior
James H. Moor
311
Dumping the Big Question315
20Turing on the "Imitation Game"
Noam Chomsky
317
Conclusion323
Acknowledgments325
Sources327
Bibliography331
Index
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