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Turing Prize 2by *james119

Digital Art / Mixed Media / Conceptual

2nd variation

Alan Turing, brilliant scientist and inventor of modern computing, breaker of the Nazi Enigma code, who thus saved countless lives in WWII, came up with the idea of the Turing Test, for when machine intelligence will be able to fool people that it is a conscious human being (a prize is given every year for the best attempt to pass the Turing Test). He was honored as a great hero by England, then cruelly persecuted for being a homosexual - humiliated, chemically castrated and hounded out of academia, finally committed suicide with a cyanide-laced apple.

The piece is a comment on the contempt for human values that often shows in the true believers in cybernetic totalism, transhumanism, radical darwinism and the cyborg-asmic rapture of the coming Techno-Singularity.

~Fluffypuff Feb 20, 2009

totally fantastic. the complexity is still simple. beautiful work!

~Flockhart Jan 5, 2009

Turing has always been a hero of mine since I first read about his work on computation/computing - and about his untimely death.
And this is a great piece - one of your best

Imho
Sky hooks books and Alan Turing cool !

*james119 Jan 8, 2009

Thank you.

*Ensomniac Nov 28, 2008

Awesome work. Great job.

*james119 Dec 3, 2008

Thanks.

*Ensomniac Dec 6, 2008

my pleasure

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