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Columbia University presidential scholar Alan Brinkley says Bill Clinton's appointment could prompt a similar reaction...
...Alan E. Wirzbicki contributed to the reporting of this article...
...mathematician Alan Turing proposed a test to determine when computers had achieved this consciousness. Turing's test goes as follows: Imagine you are talking with an unknown entity on, say, instant messenger. If after an unlimited period of time you cannot tell if the entity you are communicating with is a computer or a flesh-and-blood human, then we must treat this computer as conscious. Turing's point was in many ways an epistemological **2) or empirical?** one: We can only define consciousness by the behavior we observe in other entities. So, basically, because you believe your roommates...
Forgot all about the Fed meeting, what with it being earnings season on Wall Street and election season - make that debate season - everywhere else? That's just what Alan Greenspan had in mind...
...dampen consumer spending, continue to do the Fed's soft-landing work for it? Or will they smother the boom? Will corporate earnings pick up? Will the euro ever recover? As the Fed chairman made clear with those ever-so-slightly-hawkish comments about energy prices, Uncle Alan may be on the sidelines - but he's watching. And he'll see us in December...