Alan Turing

declared war on Germany, Alan Turing and his team worked together to break the code of the Enigma machine and thus have access to the German military communication ( SOURCE). This essay is about the cryptanalysis of Enigma. In order to clearly explain this process, in this essay I will focus on the Enigma machine, the Bombe Machine and Alan Turing. Before World War II and the Bombe machine, Alan Turing has proven to be a highly intellectual student since the early age. Turing was born…

the struggle behind the character’s failures. The first hour of The Imitation Game demonstrates the growing frustration of the team trying to break the enigma code. They try their hardest in every possible way they can, but they do not succeed until Turing miraculously discovers that the machine must be programmed to a word or phrase that it would be able to recognize in most, if not all, Nazi messages. I think the film has a decent way of portraying the mathematics, but it could explain more…

In his essay, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” Alan Turing poses the question, “Can machines think?” (433). Turing takes the position that machines can, indeed, think depending on how one defines thought. Although he states that he “should begin with the definitions of the meaning of the terms ‘machine’ and ‘think,’” he does not directly provide the reader with his definition of thought (433). Instead, he spends a lengthy amount of time exploring a replacement question that manifests…

The topic of why humans are the way we are is one that has caused some of the greatest thinkers of human history to spend years pondering. Along with this pondering, questions have risen that has caused many controversies over the years. The questions include things such as “What is the mind?” “Where is it found?” “Why do we experience what we do?” “How do we know what I am seeing and experiencing is the same thing that you are experiencing?” And perhaps one of the biggest questions that has…

He developed the Turing Test, which measures for levels of intelligence in a machine, based on how "human-like" the machine seems in a "regular conversation" with a human. According to Turing, the actual human should not be able to sense that they are interacting with a machine. If a human is unable to distinguish whether they are speaking to a machine or a human after a few minutes of conversation, then the machine has passed the Turing test, and is deemed an "intelligent" machine…

This Documentary looks at four brilliant mathematicians; Cantor, Boltzmann, Godel, and Turing for their groundbreaking contributions to mathematics, but also for the mental anguish and personal tragedy in their lives. How big is infinity? What is thermodynamics? These seemingly simple questions are what drove four brilliant mathematicians to insanity and ultimately suicide. “Dangerous Knowledge” delves into the deeper side of mathematics by trying to understand nature through mathematics,…

possibilities. The main points to this chapter were the arguments and objections that were trying to answer the following question “Could Machines Think?”. These arguments consisted of the Piecemeal-Replacement Argument, The Tipping Point Objection, The Turing Test, and the Chinese Room argument. This chapter is composed out off arguments and objections that are trying to prove that robots can think. The Piecemeal-Replacement Argument stated that machines could think, and it involved an…

The mind body problem questions what is the nature of the mind and mental states? How are the mind and the body related? How are mental states related to brain states? Descartes says that there are two kinds of elements in the world, bodies and minds. Descartes believes in interactionism which means minds and bodies intermingle with one another. The Chinese Room Argument was introduced by philosopher John Searle. In this experiment He explains an encounter that a human has with a computer that…

The question of what consciousness is or what we can deem as to be conscious is most fiercely debated topic in this dissertation because its subjective nature; what you and I may consider to have its own consciousness may possibly or rather probably will be different, how then can we build a machine with its own conscience when we has humans still haven’t figured it what it even really means to be conscious. I think therefore I am This very famous statement written by French mathematician and…

It should not be surprising to state that there are many racists and racial tensions held within modern day America. From the early years of colonization, White-Europeans settled on this western land and after some time brought African-heritage individuals to America to be bought and sold as slaves. Centuries have passed since those days, but it seems the tense racial climate of the past still haunts the present. Society is currently saturated with technology that did not exist decades or…