On 6/10/2014 2:04 AM, LizR wrote:
Having just re-re-read my good friend Wikipaedia's article on this, I'm still not sure exactly what Turing is proposing. It looks like what you said - that both a man and a computer tries to fool the judge that they're a woman! Which is bizarre, but so are cyanide coated apples if one can believe that.
It's not so bizarre in context. Shortly before, Turing had visited Godel and Godel had taken him to Godel's favorite movie, the Disney version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
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