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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