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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

Alan Turing

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
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, “My little computer said such a funny thing this morning”.
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Funny Future Morning Technology Walk Woman
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Mathematics Reason
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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Game Technology
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
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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Distance Need Travel Work
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
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Food Human Technology
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning Technology
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
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
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science

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