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June 24, 2012alan turing, computation, computational intelligence, computational psychology, computationalism, computer science, philosophy of mind, Turing, turing machine, turing test

Discussion of Turing Test

A discussion on the BBC World Service (H/T to David Livingston Smith). Artificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityPhilosophy of mind

June 23, 2011alan turing, Andrew Hodges, cognitive science, computational intelligence, philosophy of mind, Turing, turing machine, turing test

Alan Turing

Born on this day in 1912. Andrew Hodges’ Turing page. See his Stanford entry as well. Alan TuringAndrew HodgesArtificial intelligenceTuringTuring machineTuring testWorld War II

May 30, 2011cognitive science, Dennett, philosophy of mind, robotics, robots, Turing, turing machine, turing test

For once the comments are quickly and pointedly onto this shallow techno-ebulliance that is so prevalent in techno-journalism. What is apparently lost on the writer is Lodge’s in-joke reference to a character from his own Thinks . . . – Ralph Messenger (supposedly based upon Dennett), director of the Centre for Cognitive Science at the University of…