All are welcome to attend this public talk at MIT as part of the PIKSI summer program!
\n\nAbstract: Discussion of Alan Turing has focused on his contributions to developing and implementing the idea of a stored-program computer\, his work in cryptography and Artificial Intelligence\, and his discussions of the nature of mind and mechanism. His famed &ldquo\;Turing Test&rdquo\; has been taken to advocate a reductive\, computationalist mechanism about the brain and the mind\, i.e.\, functionalism. This is thought to point forward toward a possible &ldquo\;singularity&rdquo\; in which machines perform most or all of human labor. The real Turing was a philosopher of the foundations of logic and mathematics\, following a longstanding Cambridge philosophical tradition. He insisted on the importance of &ldquo\;common sense&rdquo\;: a malleable\, yet fundamental concept he often invoked\, influenced above all by Wittgenstein\, whom he in turn influenced. Turing&rsquo\;s fascination with what he called &ldquo\;the cultural search&rdquo\; provides us with a novel perspective on the role and nature of automation\, conversation and emerging media in our computationally-driven world.
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