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| | Alan Turing |
 | | This work was interrupted by Alan Turing's arrest in February 1952 for his sexual affair with a young Manchester man, and he was obliged, to escape imprisonment, to undergo the injection of oestrogen intended to negate his sexual drive. |
 | | In his investigation, Turing introduced the idea of an ‘oracle’ capable of performing, as if by magic, an uncomputable operation. |
 | | Probably Turing was aiming at the opposite idea, of finding a theory of the reduction process that would be predictive and computable, and so plug the gap in his hypothesis that the action of the brain is computable. |
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