A great article on similar issues is "Turing Test: 50 Years Later": http://crl.ucsd.edu/~saygin/papers/MMTT.pdf http://crl.ucsd.edu/~saygin/papers/MMTT.pdf It

A great article on similar issues is "Turing Test: 50 Years Later": http://crl.ucsd.edu/~saygin/papers/MMTT.pdf http://crl.ucsd.edu/~saygin/papers/MMTT.pdf It touches on the "physics is computable therefore the mind is computable", and similar such arguments, in a fascinating and IMO balanced way.