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  1. Sep 2020
    1. Intelligent behaviour presumably con-sists in a departure from the completely disciplined behaviour involved incomputation

      Can a machine learn? If it can learn does that mean it can think?

    2. When a burnt child fears theWre and shows that he fears it by avoiding it, I should say that he was applyingscientiWc induction.

      Could be argued that this scientific induction is instinct. Is it possible, with the belief that machines are not conscious, for them to have instincts?

    3. not only write it but know that it had written it.

      Highlights the difference between knowing something and copying something. How can one measure if someone/something actually knows something?

    4. Yciently powerful logical system statementscan be formulated which can neither be proved nor disproved within the system,unless possibly the system itself is inconsistent

      How can one prove that a system is inconsistent. This argument feels weak on Godel's part because, if we are comparing human to computer, you can never prove that a human is consistent or not.

    5. If two machines are put together theircapacities must be added to obtain the capacity of the resultant machine.

      This will increase the complexity of the machine and the capacity for information that can be held.

    6. modern digital computers are electrical, and that the nervous system also iselectrica

      Turning finds ways to connect the computer to human beings. This approach will help him to create a machine that is more closely related to a human.

    7. The short answer is that we are not asking whether all digital computerswould do well in the game nor whether the computers at present availablewould do well, but whether there are imaginable computers which would dowell.

      Turning is approaching the how of creating a "universal machine" and if it is possible to even imagine.

    8. a machine can be constructed to play the imitation gamesatisfactorily, we need not be troubled by this objection

      The question that will Turning believes will satisfy the answer to the overall question if the machine can complete the task.

    9. machines

      I think that Turning wants to test to see if a machine is able to not only mimic the responses of a human mind, but also be able to teach a machine to deliberately choose when to answer the question wrong.