Stuart Watt (1996) Naive Psychology and the Inverted Turing Test
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Psycoloquy 7(14): Naive Psychology and the Inverted Turing Test
NAIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND THE INVERTED TURING TEST
Target Article by West on Turing Test
Stuart Watt
Department of Psychology
The Open University
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, UK. MK7 6AA
s.n.k.watt@open.ac.uk
Abstract
This target article argues that the Turing test
implicitly rests on a "naive psychology," a naturally evolved
psychological faculty which is used to predict and understand the
behaviour of others in complex societies. This natural faculty is
an important and implicit bias in the observer's tendency to
ascribe mentality to the system in the test. The paper analyses the
effects of this naive psychology on the Turing test, both from the
side of the system and the side of the observer, and then proposes
and justifies an inverted version of the test which allows the
processes of ascription to be analysed more directly than in the
standard version.
Keywords
False belief tests, folk psychology, naive psychology,
the "other minds" problem, theory of mind, the Turing test.
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