To address some of the other replies to this comment ("it would more convincing with spelling errorrs" &c.), Dennet isn't directly concerned with the Turing Te

To address some of the other replies to this comment ("it would more convincing with spelling errorrs" &c.), Dennet isn't directly concerned with the Turing Test itself here: he's attacking the Chinese Room argument [1], the formulation of which he regards as cheating, and provides the quoted conversation to illustrate the limits of what a human manually translating input Chinese symbols to output Chinese symbols could actually achieve. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room