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 (10[1])France. (-5[1])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 (-5[1])1949 metaphor that critiques the “category mistake” of comparing the mind and body. In that image from (-5[1])The Concept of Mind, Gilbert Ryle likened Cartesian dualism to a “ghost (10[1])in” one (10[2])of these objects. For 10 points, what sort of object is assessed for the ability to think in the “imitation game,” or Turing test? ■END■ (10[2])

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
Danila KabotyanskiIndiana AChicago D4810
Andrew WangIllinois AIndiana B49-5
Liam StarnesChicago BMissouri87-5
Arjun KalaIllinois BWashU A104-5
Neal JoshiWashU BIllinois C11610
Ezra SantosChicago BMissouri11810
Jacob HarlMissoui S&TChicago C11810
Sophie LymanWashU AIllinois B14310
Trenton BurgessIndiana BIllinois A14310

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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