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Full Idea
Ned Block proposes a machine (a 'blockhead') which could pass the Turing Test just by looking up responses in a vast look-up table.
Gist of Idea
A fast machine could pass all behavioural tests with a vast lookup table
Source
report of Ned Block (works [1984]) by Georges Rey - Contemporary Philosophy of Mind 5.3
Book Ref
Rey,Georges: 'Contemporary Philosophy of Mind' [Blackwell 1997], p.153
A Reaction
Once you suspected you were talking to a blockhead, I think you could catch it out in a Turing Test. How can the lookup table keep up to date with immediate experience? Ask it about your new poem.