To relate his perspective on the subject of can a machine think, Turing redefines the

question using what he calls the imitation game in which an interrogator on an

isolated area must ask questions in order to distinguish between two subjects:; a
machine and a man. The new question he derives from this scenario is will the
interrogator decide wrongly as often as when the game was played by a man and a
woman? (A.M.Turing, 1950). This question he considers to be less ambiguous than
former. However, in my opinion this question does not exactly corresponds with
former and therefore regardless of the results it yields from the imitation game, will
not prove or disprove the former question. In my opinion the question was not as
ambiguous as Turing defined it to and of such I think it should have been addressed
just as it is. I feel very strongly that the question was structured to reflect its
meaning based up on the use of the technical term machine. Posing a question
such as can machines think is therefore different from asking, can machines behave
like theyre thinking which is synonymous to asking, can machines display behaviors
that makes them seem as if they are conducting the mental processes of humans?
Turing in an attempt to combat arguments brought against his idea of claiming
machines can think, may have swayed himself into agreement with some of these
objections without his own comprehension. For instance, the objection brought
about by theological beliefs that thinking is a function of the soul. He combats this
objection by asserting that we should believe that the almighty has power to confer
a soul on an elephant and in the same manner suggest that the almighty can do
same to a machine. His inability here to argue that thinking is not a function of the
soul but rather asserting the point that the almighty can confer a soul on a machine
would suggest in some way that he himself is in agreement with this point.

Furthermore I find that Turing in most cases cannot demonstrate strong defense to
his method as he frequently attempts to use the imitation game as a means to
justify its own authenticity while defending against objection. What he should have
done however is to find methods or utilize some other credible scientific source to
make his own argument more convincing. Turing was able to find a weakness in his
suggested game by replacing one of the contestants with a man of telepathy to
guess the interrogators card and this would make it obvious which of the two was
the machine.