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The Philosophy of Mind

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Prompt: Turing devised the 'Imitation Game' as a way to answer the question 'can a machine think?' Is Turing right that someday there will be machines, or very human-like androids, which think or are conscious like humans? How will we be able to tell (if they are 'thinking' or if they are indeed 'conscious')?
How can we know that the external world really is as it seems to be to us through the senses?

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Philosophy of Mind
I think that Alan Turing is right. Advancements in technology have made it possible to have objects of artificial intelligence. If these technological advancements reach far enough, we will have machines that can think and even fool humans. However, Turing's assertion that future machines' thinking can be compared to the mind is lacking. In his “Chinese Room” argument, Searle shows that although machines may be capable of thinking and even fooling humans, they cannot achieve consciousness. Searle notes that thinking is the use of logic. Machines are built to use codes that humans have written. They do not understand the codes, and, therefore, they are not capable of understanding the...
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