Ariella V. Popple (1996) The Existence-in-principle of the Rosetta Stone: . Psycoloquy: 7(37) Turing Test (5)
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Psycoloquy 7(37): The Existence-in-principle of the Rosetta Stone:

THE EXISTENCE-IN-PRINCIPLE OF THE ROSETTA STONE:
IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSCIOUSNESS
Commentary on Bringsjord on Turing-Test

Ariella V. Popple
Department of Psychology
University of Durham
Science Laboratories
Durham DH1 3LE
United Kingdom

A.V.Popple@dur.ac.uk

Abstract

Bringsjord (1996) suggests that naive psychology will vanish when we become unsure whether our netscape correspondents are human or just a bag of tricks. This pessimism, which stems from his assertion that humans are not automata, may necessitate allowing humans to contravene the laws of physics. Recent developments associating thermodynamics with information theory anticipate that contemporary quandaries about mind and brain may one day become as incomprehensible as the idea that Egyptologists once argued about the existence-in-principle of the Rosetta stone.

Keywords

False belief tests, folk psychology, naive psychology, the "other minds" problem, theory of mind, the Turing test.

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