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No: the implications too hard to face
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The consequences of machine thought are too dreadful to accept, therefore we should 'stick our heads in the sand' and hope that machines will never be able to think or have souls.
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Argument anticipated by Alan Turing, 1950.
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No: the implications too hard to face☜The consequences of machine thought are too dreadful to accept, therefore we should stick our heads in the sand and hope that machines will never be able to think or have souls.☜59C6EF
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The Transmigration Consolation☜Heads-in-sand objections too trivial to merit response; consolation is more appropriate. Some comfort may be found in belief that souls may pass from humans to machines when humans die by the theological doctrine of the transmigration of the soul.☜EF597B
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Computing Machinery and Intelligence
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Alan Turing
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1950
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Price, David
8:55 PM 17 November 2007 GMT
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No: computers can't be creative
Computers can never be creative. They only do what they are programmed to do. They have no originality or creative powers.
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No: God gave souls to humans not machines
The theological objection, anticipated by Turing, that only entities with immortal souls can think. God has given souls to humans, but not to machines. Therefore, humans can think and computers can't.
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No: computers are inherently disabled?
Machines can never do X, where X is any variety of abilities that are regarded as distinctly human—e.g. being friendly, having a sense of humour, making mistakes, or thinking about oneself.
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Computers can be subject of own thoughts
When a computer solves equations, the equations can be said to be the object of its thought. Similarly when a computer is used to predict its own behaviour or to modify its own program, we can say that it's the object of its own thoughts.
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No: ESP would confound the test
Extrasensory Perception could invalidate the Turing Test in a variety of ways—eg if a competitor with ESP could "listen in" on the judges & gain an unfair advantage, or a judge with ESP could easily discern humans from machines by clairvoyance.
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2) The "Heads in the Sand" Objection
The consequences of machines thinking would be too dreadful. Let us hope and believe that they cannot do so."
This argument is seldom expressed quite so openly as in the form above. But it affects most of us who think about it at all. We like to believe that Man is in some subtle way superior to the rest of creation. It is best if he can be shown to be necessarily superior, for then there is no danger of him losing his commanding position. The popularity of the theological argument is clearly connected with this feeling. It is likely to be quite strong in intellectual people, since they value the power of thinking more highly than others, and are more inclined to base their belief in the superiority of Man on this power.
I do not think that this argument is sufficiently substantial to require refutation. Consolation would be more appropriate: perhaps this should be sought in the transmigration of souls.
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