Tossup
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 of the soul, which forced its author Julien de La Mettrie to flee 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 Treatise on Man. One of these tangible objects appears in a 1949 metaphor that critiques the “category mistake” of comparing the mind and body. In that image from The Concept of Mind, Gilbert Ryle likened Cartesian dualism to a “ghost in” one of these objects. For 10 points, what sort of object is assessed for the ability to think in the “imitation game,” or Turing test? ■END■
Buzzes
Summary
Tournament | Edition | TUH | Conv. % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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California | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 100% | 0% | 95.33 |
Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 100% | 17% | 116.50 |
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 83% | 33% | 133.00 |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 100% | 50% | 114.33 |
Overflow | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 100% | 20% | 118.80 |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 100% | 50% | 110.50 |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 100% | 33% | 121.00 |
UK | 2025-02-01 | 10 | 100% | 30% | 111.10 |