Alan Turings Cathedral

 Alan Turings Cathedral


The brilliant Mr. Turing presented his prescient ideas about 85 years ago, His insight was based on his own brilliance and thousands of years of precedent, deep thought in philosophy, science and mathematics. 


During the next four human generations, the emergence of tools that enabled modern electronics, plus an astronomical number of hours of programming by very intelligent people, has given us all new shoes, enabling us to walk inside an invisible cathedral.


When we enter this structure we may choose to explore the largest caves in the world, stand at the peak of the highest mountains, raft the most severe rapids known to mankind, fly anything, anywhere, in any kind of weather, review great art, review all of written history, analyze the structure of proteins, and understand complexity theory in the context of the universe, the stock market and human behavior, and much more, while sitting in an armchair with a computer in the palms of our hands.


All of this is not surprising from the modern human perspective, but certainly astonishing in the context of life on earth.


Let's remember that we walked for countless generations, out of Africa to every other place on the planet, carrying only primitive tools, exploring the land and the water, and then building pyramids, arches and aqueducts, ships to sail oceans, and now ships which fly, enabling voyages that are now not only imaginary.


Aubrey Lieberman 

6/2/25






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