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can a machine think

Can a machine think? ... Does a computational machine that succeeds in passing Turing Test really possess consciousness?
Some operationalist would say that computer can think provided that it acts indistinguishably from the way that a person acts when thinking. According to this belief, Alan Turing in his article entitled " Computing Machinery and Intelligence", proposed a test to check whether a machine can reasonably be said to think. ...
However, a machine that passed the Turing Test successfully does not necessarily to have consciousness. ... Human, being conscious, can think by themselves, decide what to do by themselves and aware what they had done by themselves. And it is this nature that differentiates machine from human. ... Since it is possible for a machine to pass Turing Test but impossible for it to possesses consciousness, a machine that succeed in passing Turing Test do not mean that it possesses consciousness. ... Machine Understanding and The Chinese Room.


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