morungos

This paper is about how we might assess the difference between human minds and machine minds. It is divided into two parts. The first briefly explores how machines might decide whether humans are intelligent, and parallels Turing?s original 1950 article closely. The second explores a hypothetical legal case in a little more detail, looking at Turing?s test in a more legal setting. Both explore sources of variation on the test, sources of variation that are implicit in the format of the test. The two main parts of the paper are written in different voices, to escape the assumption that the Turing test is necessarily scientific and philosophical, and also to make it possible to explore the implications of positions that cannot be my own ? for one reason or another.