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Ideas from 'works' by Ned Block [1984], by Theme Structure

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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
                        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.
                        From: report of Ned Block (works [1984]) by Georges Rey - Contemporary Philosophy of Mind 5.3
                        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.