Part one of term paper
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 intellectual capacities and whether inanimate objects (Turing, p. 443) like a computer c ...

Part two of term paper
... an imitation game which would serve to draw a “fairly sharp line between the physical and the intellectual capacities of man”(p.444). Turing explains that the “idea behind digital computers…these machines are intended to carry out any operation which could be done by a human computer”(p.436). In effect, these machines are supposed to imitate the things a human being can do. For example, a computer learns how to receive, analyze and store information. These abilities are based on ...