Personally, I don’t think Turing answered the question “Can Machines think?”
even when he shifts the question to “Are there imaginable digital computers
that would do well in the imitation game?” Instead, he writes about how a
machine might be thought of as intelligent. This would be done, he writes,
by having a computer convince a person that the computer was really a
different person of a specific gender. By implication, Turing is equating
thinking with the ability to pose as a human. However, the ability for
a computer to fool someone is relatively easy, given
the fact that more than 55% of communication is nonverbal.
This means that it is easy to trick a human when only text is involved.

It would be both very interesting and frightening if scientists were
to go about producing artificial intelligence in the way that Turing
proposes. In a sense, computers (or their software, at any rate) would
be bred to be more intelligent. In his paper, Turing is absolutely
convinced that Artificial intelligence is what is needed. In his conclusion,
Turing wants to teach a computer to “understand and speak English”.
Yet in all of his paper, Turing never says why he wants to do that. This
might have something to do with the fact that Turing thought of his
brain as being a hyper-advanced form of the digital
computer he defined.