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"Can machines think?" That's the core question legendary mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing posed in October, 1950. Turing wanted to assess whether machines could imitate or exhibit ...

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Author's rendition of a basic Turing test set-up. Sitting in between two agents (one human and one machine), a person needs to interact with both agents and determine (correctly) which is a machine.

The test of a new paradigm is often the extent to which it can settle old issues that other perspectives have failed to resolve. Where the diametric model of the mind is concerned, I have already ...

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