Jane O’Grady

What exactly do we mean by the mind?

Philip Hall urges us to explore ‘the space of possible minds’, rather than focussing on the human mind as central and unique

Alan Turing, who proposed a test in 1950 to prove how machine-like the mind is. [Alamy]

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