The Importance of Universality in Thinking

The game was intended to persuade the reader in case the reader was skeptical that a machine can think. So, it did that by imagining a situation in which there is a computer program that can produce the same output. And then he imagined playing this game in which you have the computer and a human, both talking at long distance with the skeptic who thinks that machines can't think. He would then be unable to tell the difference.