> [H]ow many different automata or moving machines could be made by the industry of man ... For we can easily understand a machine's being constituted so that i

> [H]ow many different automata or moving machines could be made by the industry of man ... For we can easily understand a machine's being constituted so that it can utter words, and even emit some responses to action on it of a corporeal kind, which brings about a change in its organs; for instance, if touched in a particular part it may ask what we wish to say to it; if in another part it may exclaim that it is being hurt, and so on. But it never happens that it arranges its speech in various ways, in order to reply appropriately to everything that may be said in its presence, as even the lowest type of man can do Discourse on the Method[0] - René Descartes - 1637 A precursor to the Turing Test[1] 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_the_Method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_the_Method 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#Philosophical_background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#Philosophical_back...