Frege, however, had an even deeper idea about how to do this.
Indeed, it is important to distinguish the Turing test from the much more serious and deeper ideas that Turing proposed about the construction of a computer; these ideas involved an account not merely of a system's behaviour but of how that behaviour might be produced internally.
An entire new generation of philosophers who know their empirical literature come up with new designs for testing out hypotheses that are informed by deep, substantive ideas about the mind.
Could these deep-rooted ideas about sexual morality filter through to high-level decision making?
Women who speak powerfully suffer the blowback of stereotype threat, disrupting not just leadership roles traditionally held by men, but deep-seated ideas about what men and women are supposed to do in life.
Many thinkers, however, have regarded this determinism as incompatible with deep and important ideas about what it is to be a human being or to lead a human life ideas such as freedom and responsibility, autonomy, spontaneity, creativity, and the apparent "openness" of the future.
Psychoanalytic theory at this point in history seems to understand that our deepest, most embedded ideas about what it means to be good originate in our family of origin and even in the best case scenarios those families of origin can be pretty solipsistic little microcosms.
"It seems that when you challenge or threaten this very, very deep-seated idea about a woman's role, about the beauty and value of natural childbirth and motherhood, you stir up some extremely passionate and aggressive responses in people".
Yet "The Two Cultures" actually embodies one of the deepest tensions in our ideas about progress.
THE STUDENT STRIKE in Quebec in 2012 did not just bring down the province's government; it also revealed deep cultural differences in ideas about university funding.
