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work_uq3eskxzjfbspfmcv52wui64qi	Darren Abramson	Descartes' influence on Turing	2011	10	.pdf	application/pdf	10559	1517	76	" Then I show that Alan Turing was likely aware of Descartes's 'language test'. Turing proposes to replace the question 'can machines think' wit Still, someone might argue, this only shows that Turing lacks contency in his presentation; although he veers away from his behavist line in defending from criticism the claim that machines can ring is a behaviorist, Dennett writes, 'Perhaps [Turing] was inired by Descartes, who in his Discourse on Method, plausibly ared that there was no more demanding test of human Descartes' comments in the Discourse use qualifications to deribe the possibility of machines that pass the language test, but that passing the Turing test is a sufficient condition for having a Both Turing and Descartes hold their test i 784Turing was aware of Descartes' language test, and likely was in784Turing was aware of Descartes' language test, and likely was in-	./cache/work_uq3eskxzjfbspfmcv52wui64qi.pdf	./txt/work_uq3eskxzjfbspfmcv52wui64qi.txt