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Liam Slider

That's a good point: if something did pbutt the Turing Test, it would be tough to defend the viewpoint that it doesn't have a mind though a human does. Still, as you point out, that doesn't absolutely refute mind-body dualism since dualists can always fall back to the argument that whatever imbues humans with consciousness must've decided to imbue robots as well. (But that does seem a bit laughable.)

On the other hand, there is still one big buttumption that hasn't been addressed: the buttumption that any machine ever really *will* pbutt the Turing Test. For one thing, right now we don't have any computer that's even vaguely powerful enough to do it, and we don't have the right software worked out even if we did. Even looking into the future, it's not necessarily a given that it's only a matter of time until we achieve Strong AI. For whatever reason, we might simply never get there. I think it's likely that we will, but what if we succeed in producing machines that show intelligence and are great problem solvers, but that we find are still for some reason not able to ever be convincing in a Turing Test? That's about the state that we're in with the current chess machines: they can beat the best human players, but the humans say they "play like a computer". It could just be sour grapes, but we know they do go about things differently that humans do when playing chess.

- Logan