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I take your point, but Turing's paper wasn't simply an exercise in applied sociology. And the Turing test does help detect thinking, without having to define it: just consider applying it to a whole brain emulation. The Turing test and the definition of thinking are related; Truing was being disingenuous if he was pretending otherwise. He was actually proposing a definition of thinking, and stating that it would become the universally accepted one, the one that would be the "correct" simplification of the currently muddle concept.
Well, there's this:
http://swarma.org/thesis/doc/jake_224.pdf