Mind Artificial intelligence 

In 1950 Alan M. Turing published 'Computing machinery & intelligence' in Mind, in which he proposed that machines could be tested for intelligence using questions & answers. This process is now named the Turing Test. The term Artificial Intelligence was first used by John McCarthy who considers it to mean 'the science & engineering of making intelligent machines'. It could also refer to intelligence as exhibited by an artificial entity. AI is studied in overlapping fields of computer science, psychology, neuroscience & engineering, dealing with intelligent behavior, learning & adaptation & usually developed using customized machines or computers.

Research in AI is concerned with producing machines to automate tasks requiring intelligent behavior. Examples include control, planning & scheduling, the power to answer diagnostic & consumer questions, handwriting, natural language, speech & facial recognition. As such, the study of AI has also become an engineering discipline, focused on providing solutions to real life problems, knowledge mining, software applications, strategy games like computer chess & other video games. 1 of the biggest difficulties with AI is that of comprehension. Many devices have been created that could do amazing things, but critics of AI claim that no actual comprehension by the AI machine has taken place.

The debate about the nature of the mind is relevant to the development of artificial intelligence. If the mind is indeed a thing separate from or higher than the roleing of the brain, then hypothetically it would be much more difficult to recreate within a machine, if it were possible at all. If, on the other hand, the mind is no more than the aggregated roles of the brain, then it will be possible to create a machine with a recognisable mind , by simple virtue of the fact that such a machine already exists in the form of the human brain.