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Can a Computer Think?

Before a computer can do anything at all it must be given an exact, step-by-step set of instructions called a program. It will then do just what the instructions say — no more and no less. It cannot do anything on its own. It cannot think.

Computers are used nowadays in an amazing number of different ways, both to do calculations and to store information. Scientists use computers in research. Corporations use them to keep their accounts and to calculate their workers’ pay. Governments use them for all kinds of records such as car licences and income-tax. The police keep records of suspects on a computer. Banks put a minicomputer in each branch, all connected to one big central computer.