1637
Selekoa’s 2 records dated 1637, in date order, grouped by topic.
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Ideas & lineages 2 records
Dated to 1637 only
· publication · dated to the year
Descartes’s Discours de la méthode (1637), Part V, says that a machine could be made to utter words, even words suited to actions on its body, but not to arrange them to answer the sense of whatever is said in its presence, and that a machine doing some things as well as people would fail in others; by these two means machines could always be told from people. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the year
Descartes’s Discours de la méthode (Leiden, 1637), Part V, says that machines made to resemble human bodies and imitate human actions could always be told from real people by two means, and that, even if they did some things as well as or better than people, they would act not by knowledge but only by the disposition of their organs. Evidence ↗