Alan Mathison Turing born June 23rd 1912, was a disorganized meandering slob until a school friend named Christopher Morcom pulled him out of his shell by first adjusting his school uniform collar. Morcom saw in Turing a light that connected them in symbiotic love that propelled Alan Turing to try and reconnect with Morcom after Morcom’s death. This life lasting love prepared Turing with the aptitude to devise technology to crack the Nazi U-boat Enigma codes ending WWII premising the founding of Computer Science and Cryptology. This pursuit led him to investigate the elementary programming structures of life and consciousness way before the established field of DNA research. Unfortunately that pursuit was cut short when he bit into an apple that was infused with cyanide. Suicide, accident or murder? Like many police investigations, suicide is usually the verdict if the truth surrounding the death is too daring to deal.
Calling Alan Turing the father of Artificial Intelligence is misguided. There is nothing artificial about what he was trying to study and build to connect. Rather he was embarking on a field still not realized to this day: the science of bridging between material and ethereal realities in consciousness. The Turing Test is still unpenetrated.
Turing’s life was ignored because of his homosexuality and it was not until Andrew Hodges published the biography “Alan Turing: The Enigma” in 1983 that the life of Turing broke history.
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