Turing's Test

Are human beings Turing machines?
	More exactly 
Can they be simulated by such discrete state machines?


Turing's great advance. 
Taking an intuitively, hard to answer question and making it precise So that we
can answer it.

Objections 

  
1. mathematical
	(Only sketched). It fails

2 Theological  
Different religions give different views. So unfair to adopt Christian view
	In truth, Turing doesn't take this seriously. 

  T We don't know enough to give a reasonable answer

3. The argument from consciousness
Perhaps machine only looks to be doing something intelligent
But it is not even pretending
   
Really a Cartesian point. 
	Applies as well to other people, as to machine. 


4. Machines cannot do everything
	Insofar as it is a well formed question, no good reason to believe this

5. Cartesian objection
	Machine cannot think of itself. It cannot perform the cogito

 
6 the machine is not creative
Only does what it has been programmed to do. 
	 Maybe human beings are not creative either
	 

7.  We do not have rules for every piece of behavior
	This a variation on 6
 

8. Machine lacks the power of ESP.
	A genuinely bizarre objection