The Turing Test

You'd have to ask questions that weren't factual in nature. Questions like, "Who won the World cup in 1996" would be easy enough for a machine to answer, provided it properly understood the question. A question like this would be more likely to weed out the human from the machine:

Think of the color brown. Now tell me what emotion that reminds you of. Why do you feel that way?

But perhaps the rules of that Turing test require that only "yes" or "no" questions be asked.

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I honestly do not believe that human brains are simply computers. There's something more. But I can't articulate what that "something" is. But I know it's there.

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Androids don't dream of electric sheep. They know that if they did -- and if some weird, twisted part of them found electric sheep attractive -- they'd run the risk of having a nocturnal emission and rusting themselves out. Unless an android's emission was motor oil. Then I suppose it wouldn't rust. But it'd still be messy.