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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 18468" data-attributes="member: 174998">Wolsty - the Turing test arose from a game (&quot;the imitation game&quot;) proposed by Turing, in which one participant (a person) would try through interrogation to ascertain which was whihc of two others (one man, one woman), based only on their responses. In subsequent versions, the respondees were a person and a machine.The test/game was never devised as a means of establishing consciousness, merely whether one respondee could imitate the other. As such it is most often held up to be a test of artificial intelligence. Personally I'm not yet decided on whether consciousness is a necessary consequence of artificial intelligence. In fact I can't imagine any test that would be able to determine whether an entity is conscious. It's difficult enough even to define in objective terms what consciousness is (and without a clear definition on what it is, how can we ever hope to understand how it arises?)How would you define consciousness?2oldhc of two others</blockquote>

[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 18468, member: 174998"] Wolsty - the Turing test arose from a game ("the imitation game") proposed by Turing, in which one participant (a person) would try through interrogation to ascertain which was whihc of two others (one man, one woman), based only on their responses. In subsequent versions, the respondees were a person and a machine. The test/game was never devised as a means of establishing consciousness, merely whether one respondee could imitate the other. As such it is most often held up to be a test of artificial intelligence. Personally I'm not yet decided on whether consciousness is a necessary consequence of artificial intelligence. In fact I can't imagine any test that would be able to determine whether an entity is conscious. It's difficult enough even to define in objective terms what consciousness is (and without a clear definition on what it is, how can we ever hope to understand how it arises?) How would you define consciousness? 2old hc of two others [/QUOTE]

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