Re: Contradiction in Rucker?

Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Fri, 18 Jul 1997 04:30:19 -0700


Eric Watt Forste wrote:
> The Turing test says: if
> a new system can fool one of the systems that we would have
> called a "person" under the old definition into believing that
> the new system is a person, then the new system is a person
> under the new, Turing-test definition. Of course, the details
> are much messier than that, but even simplified that much it
> looks pretty kludgy.)
>
I kant stop thinking that the notion of "person" is confabulously
kludgy.

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