I, who am engaged with poetry and not thinking in the usual ratiocinative, academic sense, dare to suggest this. Thinking is not, pace Turing, something one is able to do easily or consciously. Reflecting on thought, as it is delivered to one, is something else, and what is usually mistaken for thinking. I rather agree with Bergson who observed that it is precisely the activity of thought that one cannot observe without ceasing to think, as one, from a rapidly moving vehicle cannot see both the moving landscape and single objects in it, a phenomenon we have all witnessed and wondered at,I dare say, from trains and cars, from childhood on in this century. We can program it.
Thought is something else.
Most of the computer people are analysts, and dont really seem to know how to thnk about thinking. I disliek seeing technologists get all mystical about this thing of theirs. And that goes for the programming these days too. The are not suckers, to quote someone, but they to do indeed such. Here is another anecdote about computers and gender.