Can Machines Think On Alan Turing�s Computer Machinery And I

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Turing�s motivation for creating the Imitation Game was not in line with gender issues so, to answer the question, �Can machines think?� the man (given as A) is substituted for a machine.2
The type of machine used is limited to a digital computer. This is by no means a limitation as foreseen by Turing that �in about fifty years time one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted�.3
Speaking of machines thinking is one thing but a computer passing Turing�s imitation game, now known as �The Loebner Prize�4 is another, presently unaccomplished feat.
In summary of Turing�s case for machine�s thinking I accept and applaud his counterarguments against such points as biology and a human soul being relevant to the question. The solipsist argument on consciousness that we need to �be� the subject (man or machine) in order to accept that it is actually thinking is also invalidated by Turing. The correlation made between a human�s reactions and ...

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