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[Simon Brooke](mailto:simon@journeyman.cc)
> Hey, what IS truth, man? [Beeblebrox, quoted in [Adams, 1978]]
> "Hey, what IS truth, man?" Beeblebrox, Z, quoted in [Adams, 1978]
*This title is, of course, a respectful nod to Feyerabend's Against Method*

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Artificial Intellegence – has ab initio been based on the assumption
that the purpose of reasoning was to preserve truth. It is because this
assumption is false that the project has thus far failed to bear fruit,
that Allan Turing's eponymous test has yet to be passed.
that [Allan Turing's eponymous test](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test) has yet to be passed.
![Clockwork minds](../img/clockwork.png)
Of course it is possible to build machines which, within the constraints
of finite store, can accurately compute theora of first order predicate
calculus ad nauseam but such machines do not display behaviour which is
convincingly intelligent. They are cold and mechanical; we do not
recognise ourselves in them. Like the Girl in the Fireplace's beautiful
recognise ourselves in them. Like the [Girl in the Fireplace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_in_the_Fireplace)'s beautiful
clocks, they are precisely inhuman.
As Turing's test itself shows, intelligence is a hegemonic term, a term