We like to believe that Man is in some subtle way superior to the rest of creation. It is best if he can be shown to be necessarily superior, for then there is no danger of him losing his commanding position.
Computer science, codebreaking
From his paper 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence', published in the journal Mind.
1950
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"I've now got myself into the kind of trouble that I have always considered to be quite a possibility for me, though I have usually rated it at about 10:1 against."
Strange & Unusual"The digital computer is a universal machine, capable of performing any computable task."
Shocking"I do not wish to give the impression that I think there is no mystery about consciousness. There is, for instance, something of a paradox connected with any attempt to localize it."
Strange & Unusual"The game of cricket is one such example of a game which can be played against the computer."
Humorous"The question is not 'Can machines think?' but 'Can machines do what we (as thinking entities) can do?'"
Humorous