208 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
that creative step. Lucas’s argument is largely a philosophical one. Surely all this creativity can’t all be pre-coded within the brain. Surely we must be extending our model in order to extend mankind’s mathematical model. “Prove it; say the detractor, and he cannot. We need something more practical if we're going to show a difference between humans and machines - something an engineer, or even a physicist, could grasp! That thing is a Turing Machine. We will examine this next.
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