Zombies and the Turing test
[opening paragraph}: Why did the plan of using zombie manufacture as a means of studying consciousness ever seem plausible? Why does it impress so many people today? The immediate reason surely lies in fascination with the Turing Test -- the suggestion that computer programs would be proved to be conscious if they managed to carry on conversations in a way that made them seem conscious to a naive observer.
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1a Collingwood Terrace, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE2 2JP, UK.
Publication date: 01 April 1995
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