Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Empedocles, Ned Block and Roderick Firth

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought

1524	For Empedocles thinking is almost identical to perception [Empedocles, by Theophrastus]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / b. Turing Machines

2577	Simple machine-functionalism says mind just is a Turing machine [Block]

2580	A Turing machine, given a state and input, specifies an output and the next state [Block]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / c. Turing Test

3178	A fast machine could pass all behavioural tests with a vast lookup table [Block, by Rey]