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    Passing the Turing Test implies the presence of at least one mind.

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    • 1.Passing the Turing Test implies intelligence.
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    • 2.The term 'a mind' means 'at least one mind' by standard philosophical convention.
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    • 1.A system can produce linguistically coherent outputs through purely syntactic manipulation without any semantic understanding (Searle, 1980).
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    • 2.Minds require semantic content and intentionality, not merely the capacity to manipulate symbols according to formal rules.
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    • 3.Therefore, passing the Turing Test is compatible with the complete absence of genuine understanding or mentality.
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    • 1.Behavioral equivalence to a minded system does not entail ontological equivalence with that system, as philosophical zombies illustrate (Chalmers, 1996).
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    • 2.The Turing Test measures only third-person behavioral outputs, leaving the first-person phenomenal dimension entirely undetected.
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    In this article, we follow the standard philosophical convention according to which “a mind” means “at least one mind”. If “passing the Turing Test” implies intelligence, then “passing the Turing Test” implies the presence of at least one mind. We cannot here explore recent discussions of “swarm intelligence”, “collective intelligence”, and the like. However, it is surely clear that two people taking turns could “pass the Turing Test” in circumstances in which we should be very reluctant to say
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