The Mind Project: Curriculum

Alan Turing proposed a fascinating test for "machine intelligence" in 1950 which remains at the center of controversy. Offered here is a flash animation showing one way the test might be conducted and the types of questions that might be asked. "Is it possible to build a person?" Various criteria of personhood are considered and students are challenged to develop their own criteria and to judge whether or not those properties could be “mechanized†and built into a machine. This is an Introduction to Linguistics textbook that pays particular attention to the contributions that cognitive science makes to our understanding of language.