“HIs chess-playing methods did the same thing — as did the games on the Colossi — and posed the question as to where a line could be drawn between the 'intelligent' and the 'mechanical'. His view, expressed in terms of the imitation principle, was that there was no such line, and neither did he ever draw a sharp distinction between the 'states of mind' approach and the 'instruction note' approach to the problem of reconciling the appearance of freedom and of determinism.” Artificial IntelligenceComputersAlan Turing Book:Alan Turing: The Enigma Source: Alan Turing: The Enigma
“His machines - soon to be called Turing machines - offered a bridge, a connection between abstract symbols and the physical world.” Turing Machine Book:Alan Turing: The Enigma Source: Alan Turing: The Enigma