Yes: defines intelligence operationally/behaviorally
The Turing test defines thinking in terms of overt, measurable behavior. It offers a behavioral/operational definition of our ordinary concept of thinking.
Note: A similar debate takes place in the "Is passing the test decisive?" arguments on this map, which deal with the question of what can be demonstrated by successful simulation.

Behaviorism: A school of psychology that takes the overt behavior of a system to be the only legitmate basis of research. We can distinguish philosophical (or logical) behaviorism from methodological behaviorism.

  • Philosophical behaviorism is the position that mental states are reducible to sets of input-output correlations (or behavioral dispositions).
  • Methodological behaviorism is a research program that restricts itself to the investigation of behavior and its observable causes.
Operationalism: A philosophical position asserting that scientific concepts should be defined in terms of repeatable operations. For example, intelligence can be defined in terms of the ability to pass the Turing test.
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Artificial Intelligence »Artificial Intelligence
Can the Turing Test determine this? [2]  »Can the Turing Test determine this? [2] 
Yes: defines intelligence operationally/behaviorally
Behaviorial disposition interpretation »Behaviorial disposition interpretation
The operational interpretation »The operational interpretation
Philosophical (or logical) behaviorism »Philosophical (or logical) behaviorism
A Box of Rocks could pass the toe-stepping game »A Box of Rocks could pass the toe-stepping game
Overt behavior doesn't demonstrate understanding »Overt behavior doesn't demonstrate understanding
The black box objection »The black box objection
Vulnerable to counter-examples »Vulnerable to counter-examples
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