as an "art"; it has to be a Science before it has any real stature.
Humans have set a standard before something can gain a high level of achievement, and for some reason everything has to be backed up by science?
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Instead of attempting such a deWnition I shall replace the questionby another, which is closely related to it and is expressed in relatively unambigu-ous words.
This is clearly a very important sentence that signifies Turing's intentions for this essay because he's explaining how he's going to write and answer his question, he's posing a strategy.
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The short answer to this argument is that although it is established that thereare limitations to the powers of any particular machine, it has only been stated,without any sort of proof, that no such limitations apply to the human intellect
I believe this is the kicker, or at least one of the kickers in this text. Turing states that all machines have limitations compared to the human brain, which is true because the human brain is only limited to our own imagination. Turing shows that there is a problem in answering his question.
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The reader must accept it as a fact that digital computers can be constructed,and indeed have been constructed, according to the principles we have described,and that they can in fact mimic the actions of a human computer very closely.
Out of many important sentence's in this essay, this one's key. Turing is explaining that digital computers have all the potential of being constructed to act like the human brain, which brings us so close to understanding that computers can think.
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In so far as the human computer doescalculations in his head a part of the store will correspond to his memory.The executive unit is the part which carries out the various individual oper-ations involved in a calculation.
This sentence is rather important to allow Turing's question, "Can machines think" be true. When one thinks, it's all about individuality, or doing it on your own. Turing is explaining that the "human computer" does calculations in his head and that the executive unit involves the computer carrying out individual actions.
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