A Turing Test for Angels

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JimmyG88 said:
I am unclear what exactly you mean by that to be perfectly honest
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I was puzzled as to the mention of Turing being gay since this has no bearing whatsoever with the topic of the thread.

Turing’s experimental method is the topic of this thread.
 
Anyway back on topic. Can anyone refer me to later experiments done with the computers of today?
 
Neoplatonist said:
I have a group questions closely related to each other and in reflection on a thread I ran before:

a.How (if at all) could a person convince you they were an angel through the medium of text or e-mail?

b.Since angels often influence by whispers, how could you tell if the whispers were from your own conscience or from an angel?

c.If you saw an angel, what would you need in order to convince yourself that it was real rather than a figment of your imagination?

d.Are the brightest human intellects a millimeter or a kilometer below the lowest angelic intellects?

Feel free to tackle all or any subset of these in your reply. Look forward to your ideas!
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My answers to this question would be
A. Incorrectly framed question. A person is a person an angel is a spirit
B. Do Angels influence by whispers. How do we know
C. Faith
D. I would suggest we are not meant to know
 
JimmyG88 said:
I did wonder if it was named after Alan Turing, but I asked because I was surprised to see him referenced on this website as he was famously gay
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His being gay had nothing to do with his work, or the Turing Test. It’s purely a hypothetical scenario to deal with artificial intelligence.
 
JimmyG88 said:
My answers to this question would be
A. Incorrectly framed question. A person is a person an angel is a spirit
B. Do Angels influence by whispers. How do we know
C. Faith
D. I would suggest we are not meant to know
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A. Sorry you seem to have missed the spirit of the point in addressing the letter. Interlocutor in case one. Human in case 2.
B. Their ability to act upon our minds and through our senses comes down to us from the tradition from the Bible on. I’m addressing both, but especially the case where they act directly upon the mind.
C. So if the angel tells me God wants me to sacrifice my first born to show my loyalty, I should trust it as a matter of faith? What if it tells me that I am meant to wage a violent holy war against abortion clinics? Against kittens and puppies?
 
If our intellects continue to develop for the infinite future, would we eventually reach the point where angelic intellects started?

If our intellects don’t, that creates a different weird problem: i.e., in what way would we still seem human if there was no learning or growth?
 
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