True Turing: A Bird’s-Eye View

Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2023-06-19
Springer Nature
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SJR: 1.339
CiteScore: 7.8
Impact factor: 3.4
ISSN: 09246495, 15728641
Artificial Intelligence
Philosophy
Abstract

Alan Turing is often portrayed as a materialist in secondary literature. In the present article, I suggest that Turing was instead an idealist, inspired by Cambridge scholars, Arthur Eddington, Ernest Hobson, James Jeans and John McTaggart. I outline Turing’s developing thoughts and his legacy in the USA to date. Specifically, I contrast Turing’s two notions of computability (both from 1936) and distinguish between Turing’s “machine intelligence” in the UK and the more well-known “artificial intelligence” in the USA. According to my proposed historical interpretation, Turing did not view computations in the real world to be exhaustively and deterministically characterized by his automatic machines from 1936.

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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1007/s11023-023-09634-0
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-023-09634-0
TI - True Turing: A Bird’s-Eye View
T2 - Minds and Machines
AU - Daylight, Edgar
PY - 2023
DA - 2023/06/19
PB - Springer Nature
SN - 0924-6495
SN - 1572-8641
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@article{2023_Daylight,
author = {Edgar Daylight},
title = {True Turing: A Bird’s-Eye View},
journal = {Minds and Machines},
year = {2023},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
month = {jun},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-023-09634-0},
doi = {10.1007/s11023-023-09634-0}
}