ABSTRACT
This chapter considers artificial or mechanical intelligence, its relation to theoretical psychology, comparisons of brains and computers, and attempts to draw large philosophical consequences from results in mathematical logic about idealized computers. It concerns mainly with the impacts of computers so that the problem of men and machines is narrowed down to that of minds and computers. There are various attempts to apply Gödel's incompleteness results to prove that men can do more than machines. The author's conviction is less strong when it comes to the relation between computers and psychology, for the simple reason that he has no firm grasp of the current state of psychology as a scientific field. But he would like to look more closely at a rather definite concrete area of computer simulation. A Turing machine may be regarded as a digital computer with an unbounded storage capacity.
