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A 1637 work lists two ways of identifying these objects based on their “organs,” sometimes called the “language test” and “action test.” One of these objects partly titles a materialist 1747 treatise that denies the existence (10[1])of the soul, which forced its author Julien de La Mettrie to flee (10[1])France. A philosopher who supposedly made one of these objects that was thrown off a ship presented a view named for a “beast” one of them in his (-5[1])Treatise on Man. One of these tangible objects appears in a 1949 metaphor that critiques the “category mistake” of comparing the mind and body. (-5[1])In that image from The Concept of Mind, Gilbert Ryle likened Cartesian dualism to a “ghost in” (10[1]-5[1])one (10[1])of these objects. (10[2])For (10[1])10 points, what sort of object is assessed for the ability to think in the “imitation game,” or Turing test? ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: machines [accept automaton or automata; accept computers or robots; accept ghost in the machine; prompt on dolls or baby or babies] (The first sentence is from Descartes’s Discourse on Method.)
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