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The Turing test proposes th

Beyond Human
Wed, 15 Apr 2015 01:27:31 GMT

at a machine can be considered intelligent if it can successfully pass for human. However, many religions have ascribed humanlike intelligence and motives to non-human beings, and even inanimate objects, for thousands of years: idols; sacred trees, rocks, or rivers; or even the entire universe. From a secular perspective, does people's willingness to anthropomorphize anything make the Turing test useless? From an animistic or pantheistic perspective, might all things actually possess minds or spirits, making the very concept of "artificial intelligence" irrelevant?