Overall I do not think that computers can think. I think that thinking is a process that involves intuition and emotion, which directly comes from biological human processes rather than the digital process of programming. “Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain” (445, Professor Jefferson in Turing). We have made clear that humans can create an object that looks like it is thinking, but that success can only be equated to appearances. Just because something looks like it is thinking, doesn’t mean that it is actually thinking. Through science and mathematics, humans have invented was to simulate the human processes in inanimate objects, but this simulation of the thought process cannot and does not parallel the biological processes that are uniquely human. That, “one cannot expect to be able to mimic the behavior of the nervous system” (451, Turing). By saying this, Turing is expressing his mysticism and miraculousness about the human nervous system, which cannot be duplicated.
