I digress.

For this reading, you might think about the methodological perspective with its focus on behavior that is displayed (in different ways) by both Turing and Skinner. What are its virtues and weaknesses? What, if anything, do such behaviorist commitments leave out? Or, to ask the question from the other side, why should we care about anything beyond what is capable of generating behavioral conseque..

Most criticisms of the imitation game focus on the insufficiency of the game as a criterion of thinking; in other words, they say that there is more to thinking than just being able to pass the imitation game and satisfy Turing's operational definitions. But I thought of the following case which points out the limitation of the imitation game from another perspective, namely that the imitation m..