Turing Test makes an autonomy claim

The mind should be studied embodied but, in assuming a representationalist theory of mind, the test endorses an autonomy claim—ie intelligence can be studied solely in terms of representation and computation sans recourse to brain, body or world.

Bennie Shanon, 1989.

There is good reason to think that the autonomy claim is false and that in studying the mind we should also study its total embodied context.

Autonomy: Two theories, A & B, are autonomous if the phenomena of A can be accounted for without recourse to the conceptual framework of B.
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