Turing's original question in 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence' is not a behaviorist reduction of 'Can a machine think?' but rather a replacement of that question with a different one, which aligns with Wittgenstein's therapeutic method of dissolving philosophical problems by reformulating them.

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Jonathan B.

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“He doesn't reduce it to the other one. That would be the behaviorist position... he replaces the question”

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Human vs. Machine Consciousness | Imperial’s Murray Shanahan— Johnathan Bi
Created: 8/11/2026, 5:29:41 AM

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