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I’m afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan.

Alan Turing

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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Believe Imagination Inspirational Motivational People
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
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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Exercise Intuition Mathematics Reason
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Result Space Time
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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Evidence Ideas Science
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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Communication Computer Funny Result Trouble
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.
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Children Education Mindset Technology
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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Believe Human Intelligence Technology
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Competition Hope Intellectual Men Technology
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I’m after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
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Development Myself Powerful
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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Design Technology Time
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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Carry Explanation Human Ideas Technology
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.
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Freedom Principle Science

I’m afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan.

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I’m afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan.

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