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Merely syntactic machines could pass the test

Purely syntactic machines might pass—but sans a full naturalistic semantics, giving a global model of situational context allowing flexible interaction with the world and sustained self-perpetuation, it's doubtful they'd ever think in a human sense.

John Barresi, 1987.

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