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Imitation and Actuality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Donald McQueen
Donald McQueen
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University of Nottingham
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Philosophy , Volume 57 , Issue 220 , January 1982 , pp. 260 - 262
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1980

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1 It doesn't seem to be necessarily true that being a better imitation is the same as being closer to the real thing. All that is suggested here is that in this example the two coincide.

2 Guy Robinson, review of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man by Margaret A. Boden (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1977) in Philosophy 54, No. 207, 130.

3 Cf. ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ by A. M. Turing, Mind 59, No. 236 (1950), reprinted in Minds and Machines, A. R. Anderson (ed.) (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964).

4 I owe this example to Jonathan Harrison.

5 In the method employed in such an attempt, for example—Robinson's reference, in the passage quoted above, to the imitation of behavioural characteristics suggests such an argument.