We also wish toallow the possibility that an engineer or team of engineers may construct amachine which works, but whose manner of operation cannot be satisfactorilydescribed by its constructors because they have applied a method which is largelyexperimental
While this isn't truly to the point, this signifies Turing's intentions of the essay by saying that computers can think however they are thinking in a different way than humans would.
As well as asking, ‘What is the answer to this new form of the question’, one mayask, ‘Is this new question a worthy one to investigate?’ This latter question weinvestigate without further ado, thereby cutting short an inWnite regress.
I think this is the key sentence of the paper because Turing starts to answer the question he posed in section one. He also begins to explain the imitation game and the effects that having a machine in the game will do.
f the meaning of the words ‘machine’ and ‘think’are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is diYcult toescape the conclusion that the meaning and the answer to the question, ‘Canmachines think?’
I think this is an important sentence because Turing talks about how he is questioning whether computers can think or not. He also talks about the dictionary definition of the words 'machine' and 'think' are not necessarily what he is basing his decisions off of. Instead he is using the abstract ideas of both the words and the computers "brain" to come up with a conclusion.