Turing's o-machines, Searle, Penrose, and the brain

Analysis 58 (2):128-138 (1998)
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In his PhD thesis (1938) Turing introduced what he described as 'a new kind of machine'. He called these 'O-machines'. The present paper employs Turing's concept against a number of currently fashionable positions in the philosophy of mind

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