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> "perceiving something as something" and "treating something as something", different verbs. Well yes, but if you perceive something as something that you wil
by kybernetikos 12y ago
> "perceiving something as something" and "treating something as something", different verbs.
Well yes, but if you perceive something as something that you will treat it as if it were that thing. And that is exactly what would happen during a successful Turing test - the computer would be treated as if it were a human by the judge.
- throwawayaway 12y agoyour position is trivially falsifiable - mistakenly interact with an irc bot or an automated telephone service as if it were human, then on realisation - you treat it like a machine again.