Stuart Watt (1996) A Scientific Turing Test?
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Psycoloquy 7(20): A Scientific Turing Test?
A SCIENTIFIC TURING TEST?
Reply to Popple 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
Popple (1996) argues that the inverted Turing test should
be seen as a replicable scientific experiment. I suggest that while
the research method this implies may be appropriate, the Turing
test itself should not be seen as a scientific test.
Keywords
False belief tests, folk psychology, naive psychology,
the "other minds" problem, theory of mind, the Turing test.
References
- Clark, A. (1987) From Folk Psychology to Naive Psychology. Cognitive Science 11:139-154.
- Dennett, D.C. (1985) Can Machines Think? In: How we know, ed. M. Shafto, Harper and Row.
- Moor, J.H. (1976) An Analysis of the Turing test. Philosophical Studies 30:249-257.
- Popple, A.V. (1996) The Turing Test as a Scientific Experiment. PSYCOLOQUY 7(15) turing-test.2.popple.
- Watt, S.N.K. (1996) Naive Psychology and the Inverted Turing Test. PSYCOLOQUY 7(14) turing-test.1.watt.