Question

A 1637 work lists two ways of identifying these objects based on their “organs,” sometimes called the “language test” and “action test.” One of these objects partly titles a materialist 1747 treatise that denies the existence of the soul, which forced its author Julien de La Mettrie to flee France. A philosopher who supposedly made one of these objects that was thrown off a ship presented a view named for a “beast” one of them in his Treatise on Man. One of these tangible objects appears in a 1949 metaphor that critiques the “category mistake” of comparing the mind (10[1])and body. (10[1])In that image from The Concept of Mind, Gilbert Ryle likened Cartesian dualism to a “ghost in” (10[1])one of these objects. (10[2])For 10 points, what sort of object (-5[1])is assessed for the ability to think in the “imitation game,” or Turing test? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: machines [accept automaton or automata; accept computers or robots; accept ghost in the machine; prompt on dolls or baby or babies] (The first sentence is from Descartes’s Discourse on Method.)
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Aryan DesarapuMichigan AOhio State A9810
Kevin ZhengMichigan BCarnegie Mellon A10010
Elie AounCase Western AKenyon11710
Carter PisockyMichigan COhio State B12110
Andrew HarmsMichigan StateCarnegie Mellon B12110
Peter BallasMichigan DCase Western B128-5
Angelo PanCase Western BMichigan D14210

Summary

California2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%95.33
Great Lakes2025-02-01Y6100%0%17%116.50
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y683%0%33%133.00
Midwest2025-02-01Y6100%0%50%114.33
Overflow2025-02-01Y5100%0%20%118.80
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y2100%0%50%110.50
Southeast2025-02-01Y3100%0%33%121.00
UK2025-02-01Y10100%0%30%111.10