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The Turing Test*
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Recently unpublished material by Turing casts fresh light on his thinking and dispels a number of philosophical myths concerning the Turing test.
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What is computation?
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The successful drawing of this distinction guards Turing's 1936 analysis of computation against a difficulty that has persistently been raised against it, and undercuts various objections that have been made to the computational theory of mind.
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Accelerating Turing Machines
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It is argued that accelerating Turing machines are not logically impossible devices, and there are implications concerning the nature of effective procedures and the theoretical limits of computability.
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Alan Turing’s Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science
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Turing’s O-machines, Searle, Penrose and the brain
Analogies offered in the literature include hurricanes, the motion of the planets around the sun, and the digestion of pizza. None of these phenomena is itself computational in nature yet,…
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Narrow Versus Wide Mechanism: Including a Re-Examination of Turing’s Views on the Mind-Machine Issue
Designant par l'expression de mecanisme historique la proposition selon laquelle l'esprit est une machine, l'A. distingue, parmi les developpements de la these mecaniste au cours du XX e siecle, un…
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Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction
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The beginnings of Artificial Intelligence a historical sketch, a hard look at the facts, and a fresh start: parallel distributed processing.
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The Genesis of Possible Worlds Semantics
This article traces the development of possible worlds semantics through the work of: Wittgenstein, 1913–1921; Feys, 1924; McKinsey, 1945; Carnap, 1945–1947; McKinsey, Tarski and Jónsson, 1947–1952;…
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The Modern History of Computing
Deviant encodings and Turing’s analysis of computability
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