Sentence examples for the possibility of thinking from inspiring English sources

Alan Turing, who helped develop the precursors of today's programmable computers during the second world war, began considering the possibility of thinking machines in the 1940s.

Mr. Richards is the author of "Intellectual Privacy," a book that examines the dangers of a society in which technology and law conspire to eliminate the possibility of thinking without fear of surveillance.

Locke's system was criticized for not being able to exclude the possibility of thinking matter.

No-one in AI seems to take the failure of the Turing Test as an argument against the possibility of thinking machines.

(A VI vi 110/RB 110) Locke famously entertained the possibility of "thinking matter", and Leibniz found such a thesis abhorrent.

It was More's anti-atheistic stratagem which lay behind the rejection of John Locke's speculation about the possibility of thinking matter by the Bishop of Worcester, Edward Stillingfleet (1635 1699).

Now we face the genuine possibility of "thinking" machines making decisions that affect people.

We did that scene where he goes into the office to type up that letter in a bunch of different ways -- my attitude walking in there was different so there was the possibility of you thinking, Well, maybe Lane's come to a different decision.

In many of these cases, the denial is explicitly formulated as a rejection of the possibility of falsehood, of thinking or speaking of what is not the case.

"There are so many possible theories they're almost filling every possibility of thinking".

"I remember writing a scene between Casanova and Dr Johnson talking about reason, and Johnson arguing in a sense for the possibility of clear thinking of rational thought and Casanova believing it was rarely thus.