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by A.M. Turing is an essay comparing the abilities of computers and the human mind. It talks about the limitations of digital computers and whether or not a game could be created in order to test them. Turing explores the realms of the human brain, its intellec ....

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.... the things a human being can do. For example, a computer learns how to receive, analyze and store information. These abilities are based on those of a human, the computer only generates information, without the authority to change the process in which it functions. The computer is only following instructions that “make it possible for a sequence of operations to be repeated over and over again until some condition is fulfilled, but in doing so to obey, not to fresh instructions on each repetition, but the same ones over and over again”(p.438). He then asserts that digital computers can be built and have been built that “in fact mimic the a ....