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Could Machines Be Made to Think?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

F. H. George
F. H. George
Affiliation:
University of Bristol.
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This question as to whether machines can, or could, be made to think, has become familiar in recent years since the renewed outburst of interest that has taken place in the development of Cybernetics. The notion of servo–mechanisms and the like has a history in remote antiquity but the form of its fundamental question has recently taken on a new and especially acute significance.

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Research Article
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Philosophy , Volume 31 , Issue 118 , July 1956 , pp. 244 - 252
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1956

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1 A. M. Turing: “Computing Machines and Intelligence.” Mind (1950), Also in Intelligent Machinery–Unpublished.

2 W. Mays: “Can Machines Think?” Philosophy (1952), pp. 148–162.

page 245 note 1 Op. cit., p. 149.

page 245 note 2 Op. cit., p. 152.

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