Schneider’s ACT is a modified “Turing test”. A Turing Test is a test given to a computer which is meant to help humans determine if that computer could really ‘think’ or not. It’s named after Alan Turing, who proposed the test in his 1950 paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” in the journal Mind.[4] According to AI philosopher Margaret Boden, Turing meant for the test as more tongue in cheek than as a serious test for determining intelligence, let alone ‘sentience’ or phenomenal consciousness.[5]