{"id":164430,"date":"2015-03-09T02:50:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T02:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/09\/mollydobby-benedict-cumberbatch-reads-alan\/"},"modified":"2018-09-10T05:59:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T05:59:41","slug":"mollydobby-benedict-cumberbatch-reads-alan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/09\/mollydobby-benedict-cumberbatch-reads-alan\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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mollydobby<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Benedict Cumberbatch reads Alan Turing\u2019s 1952 Letter to his friend and fellow mathematician, Norman Routledge for The Times (x<\/a><\/a>)<\/b><\/p>\n

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For audio enthusiasts – here (y)<\/a> is Benedict reading the same letter for Letters Live in Dec 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Full Transcript of the letter: <\/b><\/p>\n

My dear Norman,<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think I really do know much about jobs, except the one I had during the war, and that certainly did not involve any travelling. I think they do take on conscripts. It certainly involved a good deal of hard thinking, but whether you\u2019d be interested I don\u2019t know. Philip Hall was in the same racket and on the whole, I should say, he didn\u2019t care for it. However I am not at present in a state in which I am able to concentrate well, for reasons explained in the next paragraph.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve now got myself into the kind of trouble that I have always considered to be quite a possibility for me, though I have usually rated it at about 10:1 against. I shall shortly be pleading guilty to a charge of sexual offences with a young man. The story of how it all came to be found out is a long and fascinating one, which I shall have to make into a short story one day, but haven\u2019t the time to tell you now. No doubt I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who I\u2019ve not found out.<\/p>\n

Glad you enjoyed broadcast. Jefferson certainly was rather disappointing though. I\u2019m afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future.<\/p>\n

Turing believes machines think
Turing lies with men
Therefore machines do not think<\/p>\n

Yours in distress,<\/p>\n

Alan<\/p>\n

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Audio source (a<\/a>) \/ Letter transcript source (b<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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