Comment by hnfong

5 days ago

> 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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eru  5 days 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!)

  • hnfong  4 days 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.