 Against the solipsistic line of thought, Turing makes the effective reply that he would be satisfied if he could secure agreement on the claim that we might each have just as much reason to suppose that machines think as we have reason to suppose that other people think. (The point isn’t that Turing thinks that solipsism is a serious option; rather, the point is that following this line of argument isn’t going to lead to the conclusion that there are respects in which digital computers could not be our intellectual equals or superiors.)