The Moor Argument
"...the Turing Test in no way depends upon the assumption that the brain is a machine. My claim is that if the test was passed in the sense discussed above, then one should conclude that both men and machines can think. One is not forced to assume or conclude from this that brains are machines (or machines are brains) any more than one would assume or conclude that a human who printed very well must be a typewriter" (Moor, 1976, p. 253).
Source: Moor, James (1976) "An analysis of the Turing test." Philosophical Studies 30: 249-257.
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