{"id":1434,"date":"2013-11-04T14:31:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T19:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2013-11-04T14:31:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T19:31:39","slug":"the-turing-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2013\/11\/04\/the-turing-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Turing Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just listened to <a title=\"Radiolab -- the Turing Problem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radiolab.org\/story\/193037-turing-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>a 20-minute radio segment<\/strong><\/a> that reduced me to tears. Alan Turing was a hero of mine long before I knew anything about autism. Once I discovered my own autism and began to be able to see signs of autism in people I knew, either personally or from reading about them, I began to nominate some of them to my own Autism Hall of Fame. Certainly Turing belongs there (in my mind at least).<\/p>\n<p>Turing was openly gay in an era when that was illegal where he lived (in England), and he was also a War Hero, having cracked the German ciphers generated by their Enigma Machine. He met a tragic end; a life shortened by prejudice and faulty science. He may have had a lot more to offer the world; we&#8217;ll never know. He was clearly a genius whose insights transformed human society. The proof of that is before your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure many of my friends know the story of Alan Turing, but whether you do or you don&#8217;t, this podcast is worth a listen. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just listened to a 20-minute radio segment that reduced me to tears. Alan Turing was a hero of mine long before I knew anything about autism. Once I discovered my own autism and began to be able to see signs of autism in people I knew, either personally or from reading about them, I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2013\/11\/04\/the-turing-problem\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,23,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}