Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.
ALAN TURINGMachines take me by surprise with great frequency.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.
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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
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