The Mind-Body Problem: Introduction
The astonishing hypothesis is that you, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. As Lewis Carroll’s Alice might have phrased it, “You’re nothing but a pack of neurons” – Francis Crick, The Astonishing Hypothesis
Democritus: we are nothing but a pack of atoms – invisible material particles in constant motion
Do we know the president is not a robot? Leibniz’s Mental Mill: Where is the “thinking,” “feeling,” and “perceiving” Descartes: The Mechanical Moron 1. Language shortfalls: limits to the variety of topics 2. Behavioral: acting from “disposition of organs” vs knowledge

Alan Turing: The Imitation Game (1950)

It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) who may be of either sex. The interrogator stays in a room apart from the other two. The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman. He knows them by labels X and Y, and at the end of the game he says either "X is A and Y is B" or "X is B and Y is A." The interrogator is allowed to put questions to A and B.