Alan Turings test

ACT 1

Scene Schooldays at youth, first love

Teachers at Sherborne were not delighted about Turings mathematical skills. They liked classical education more, instead of science. So Turing must have suffered much and had pressure because of the teachers. Headmaster contacted Turings parents: "I hope he will not fall between two stools. If he is to stay at Public School, he must aim at becoming educated. If he is to be solely a Scientific Specialist, he is wasting his time at a Public School". (wikipedia)

Nothing could stop Turings interest in mathematics. He even understood Einsteins works at the age under 20 and was seeing the connection of Einsteins work to Newtons laws of celestial mechanics.

Turing's fellow student, Christopher Morcom was Turing's first love. Morcom died suddenly only a few weeks into their last term at Sherborne, from complications of bovine tuberculosisTuring becomes an atheist. He becomes very materialisticand starts to think about machines and human brain. And especially brain as a machine.

This becomes his obsession.

ACT 2

Scene 2:scientific work

Alan Turing is searching in Kings College mathematics and machines. He invents the universal Turing machine, that is a model to solve some problems of computability. He is thinking about programming machines and computers. He thinks perhaps too is the human also too just a machine - and how to observe a human action if it is man made or machine made. This idea haunts hime day and night, night and day. His materialism is an escape to the land of mathematics and he gets better and better.

Scene 3

World war 2 starts and England needs Turing to solve encrypted messages of the nazis. He invents a method to solve the problem and thus changes perhaps the way the war is going. The machine that made the coding was called Enigma.

Choirs of nazi soldiers sing their war secrets - choir of allied soldiers echo the secrets in their language. And there is only one man in the middle: Alan Turing, as a war hero, opening the messages.

ACT 3

Post war development of computers and research of the problems concerning man and machines and thinking are the works that take Turing daytime. Evenings and night times he meets men secretly and is searching for human love.

But one of his lovers betrays him and as a thief is robbing Turings apartment. Turing calls for police and in investigations police finds out that Turing is homosexual and that the robber was his lover. He is criminal, because law said so those days when homosexuality was a crime.

Turing test in this opera is: Do they let Turing be human or do they treat him like a machine.

Turing is convicted and he must take massive amounts of femininen hormones to chemically castrate him. This turns him to a man who has breasts and collapses his mind, because hormones affect also human behaviour and thinking. Is this hormone treatment disturbing him as a machine or as a man, he must be thinking.

He gets depressed, and eats a poisoneus apple.

He dies in his room at the age of 42.

EPILOG

Homosexuality is no more crime.

Computers are an essential part of nowadays life. One of the creators of computer era was Alan Turing.

Network community is making an opera in Internet.

Prime minister Gordon Brown apologizes this mans treatment on 10 September 2009.

reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

2012 is the Alan Turing Year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing_Year