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The Doctor Will See You Now

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A paper-based way to play through the Rogerian psychotherapist script Joseph Weizenbaum published with ELIZA in 1966.

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For: Readers curious about early conversational computing
Worth noticing: The rules choose the earliest matching word in a reply and specify pronoun swaps such as “I” to “you.”

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The instructions treat spelling and pronoun changes as part of the procedure: contractions are expanded before matching, and selected pronouns are reversed when filling blanks. Readers can type into the blanks or use pencil, while replies themselves are written on paper. The visible page links onward to a starting page, but the supplied extract does not show the later sequence.

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