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In this paper we consider the capacity of machines to exhibit humanlike behaviors. In “Logic, Computers, and Men” Burks (1973) takes as his thesis that for each human there is a deterministic finite-state automaton behavior ally equivalent to that human. That is, he argues that machines can exhibit all natural human functions.
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Laing, R. (1990). Machines and Behavior. In: Salmon, M.H. (eds) The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism. Synthese Library, vol 206. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0987-8_7
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