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Excerpt from The Meaning and Mechanics of Intelligence
By this time, many people have lost interest in the controversial question, Can a machine think? For one thing, the question stubbornly resists attempts at operationalization. Turing, for example, suggested the alternative question, Can a machine pretend it is a person of specified sex as well as a person of the opposite sex who lies about its identity? Others have argued that the important question is, What are the common features of biological and artificial computational networks that account for the production of accurate solutions to problems? To these questions can be added a myriad of possible distinctions between human and machine intelligence. Among these are issues of intelligence, learning, motivation, ratio nality, induction, synthesis, conceptualization, analogy, under standing and consciousness.
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