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Quote: a machine made in the likeness of a nonrational animal would be indistinguishable from the animal; not true for a human

topics > all references > references c-d > QuoteRef: descR_1637 , p. 30 (56)



Topic:
reality is a machine
Topic:
people vs. computers

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if there were such machines having the organs … way of telling whether or not they were … many of our actions as far as this … not, for all that, true men. The first … do in order to tell our thoughts to … words, and even words appropriate to the corporeal … but it could never arrange its words differently … is something even the most backward men can … they inevitably fail in other tasks; by this … of their organs.   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: a machine can not mimic a human's ability with language and knowledge. It could not answer to the sense of all that was said, nor could it act through knowledge

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