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  Churchland underestimates the power and purpose of the Turing Test, dismissing it as the trivial game to which
  the Loebner Prize (offered for the computer program that can fool judges into thinking it's human) has reduced it, whereas it
  is really an exacting empirical criterion: It requires that the candidate model for the mind have our full behavioral capacities
  -- so fully that it is indistinguishable from any of us, to any of us (not just for one Contest night, but for a lifetime). Scaling
  up to such a model is (or ought to be) the programme of that branch of reverse bioengineering called cognitive science. It's
  harmless enough to do the hermeneutics after the research has been successfully completed, but self-deluding and
  question-begging to do it before. 
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commref: 'Book Review of: Churchland, PM. (1995) The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain (MIT Press) and Greenfield, SA (1995)'
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title: 'Thoughts as Activation Vectors in Recurrent Nets, or Concentric Epicenters, or...'
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