Comment by babarock

About the whole "machines can think" debate, I love this quote by EWD:

"Alan M. Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim."

(http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...)

Let's not fall prey to the temptation of thinking:

  Turing believes machines think
  Society acted terribly towards Turing
  Therefore machines do think.

EDIT: formatting.