<ul><li>Human desire to replicate artificial life seems across civilizations.</li><li>Ramon Llull’s mechanical reasoning system used rotating wheels with logical propositions.</li><li>George Boole’s revolutionary work proposed that human reasoning could be reduced to algebraic operations.</li><li>Gottlob Frege’s “Begriffsschrift” introduced predicate logic, providing a formal system for expressing complex logical relationships.</li><li>Turing’s concept of computability was revolutionary.</li><li>Turing’s famous 1950 paper proposed what we now call the Turing Test.</li><li>As Claude Shannon did in his work information itself was quantified.</li><li>McCulloch and Pitts proffered the first convincing demonstration that neural networks could perform logical operations.</li><li>Their work suggests that intelligence may actually be more like a spectrum built around a binary human versus machine divide.</li><li>The debate continues: or can we actually replicate human thought, or are we actually creating something completely new but equally valuable?</li></ul>

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