Lucas sure that he isn't a machine

The argument's mistakenly cast as a nondialectical proof sequence, giving an incorrect conclusion that the man is machine but can't tell which machine he is—the only way I can be sure of not being any particular machine is by not being one at all.

John Lucas (1988).
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