Notes � Turing test, Block

Greg Detre

Monday, October 21, 2002

Reading � Block, �Psychologism and behaviourism�

it was written in 1981

Questions

Block is trying to develop a non-functionalist view of mental states, right???

but presumably, he wants this psychologistic view to allow for multiple realisability, right???

if I say that �what it is for something to be intelligent (in a human-like way) is for it to pass the Turing test�, that�s an analytic rather than an operationalist statement, right???

I think so, because an operationalist would say something like �we know that it is intelligent because we�ve measured it with our Turing test�