The Mental Life of Some Machines
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The Mental Life of Some Machines is a philosophical essay by Hilary Putnam that explores whether and how machines could possess mental states, contributing to debates in philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence.
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How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Mental Life of Some Machines Context triple: [Mind, Language and Reality, hasPart, The Mental Life of Some Machines]
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A.
How to Create a Mind
"How to Create a Mind" is a nonfiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the workings of human intelligence and proposes designs for advanced artificial intelligence based on the brain’s principles.
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Man-Computer Symbiosis
Man-Computer Symbiosis is a seminal 1960 essay by J. C. R. Licklider that envisioned interactive, cooperative partnerships between humans and computers, laying conceptual foundations for modern interactive computing and the internet.
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C.
Society of Mind
Society of Mind is a seminal book by Marvin Minsky that proposes a theory of human intelligence as emerging from the interactions of many simple, non-intelligent agents within the mind.
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D.
Consciousness and the Computational Mind
Consciousness and the Computational Mind is a foundational book by cognitive scientist Ray Jackendoff that explores how mental states and conscious experience can be understood within a computational theory of mind.
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Computing Machinery and Intelligence
"Computing Machinery and Intelligence" is Alan Turing’s landmark 1950 paper that introduced the Turing Test and fundamentally shaped the philosophical and technical foundations of artificial intelligence.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Mental Life of Some Machines Target entity description: The Mental Life of Some Machines is a philosophical essay by Hilary Putnam that explores whether and how machines could possess mental states, contributing to debates in philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence.
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A.
How to Create a Mind
"How to Create a Mind" is a nonfiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the workings of human intelligence and proposes designs for advanced artificial intelligence based on the brain’s principles.
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B.
Man-Computer Symbiosis
Man-Computer Symbiosis is a seminal 1960 essay by J. C. R. Licklider that envisioned interactive, cooperative partnerships between humans and computers, laying conceptual foundations for modern interactive computing and the internet.
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C.
Society of Mind
Society of Mind is a seminal book by Marvin Minsky that proposes a theory of human intelligence as emerging from the interactions of many simple, non-intelligent agents within the mind.
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D.
Consciousness and the Computational Mind
Consciousness and the Computational Mind is a foundational book by cognitive scientist Ray Jackendoff that explores how mental states and conscious experience can be understood within a computational theory of mind.
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E.
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
"Computing Machinery and Intelligence" is Alan Turing’s landmark 1950 paper that introduced the Turing Test and fundamentally shaped the philosophical and technical foundations of artificial intelligence.
- F. None of above. chosen
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