Month: September 2025

This essay is the continuation of Computing Machinery and Intelligence by A. M. Turing. In the Imitation Game section, Turing replaced the original question with which the article began, i.e., “Can machines think?”. This question got replaced by other questions, such as: Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game is played between…

Alan Mathison Turing was born on 23 June 1912 in London. He is famously known for the Imitation Game and the Turing test. Although Turing never labelled himself as a philosopher, when he published his 1950 paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” he ended up giving a fresh perspective on the traditional mind-body problem. This work…

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is a book written by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The section below will discuss the book’s preface. Wittgenstein begins the preface of Tractatus by stating that this book is for only those who have already thought the thoughts revealed in it. Then, he moves on to talk about the aim of the book. Tractatus deals…