CONTENTS | xv
- Connectionism: computing with neurons 309
Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot - Child machines 315
Diane Proudfoot - Computer chess—the first moments 327
Jack Copeland and Dani Prinz - Turing and the paranormal 347
David Leavitt
PART VI BIOLOGICAL GROWTH 357
- Pioneer of artificial life 359
Margaret Boden - Turing’s theory of morphogenesis 373
Thomas Woolley, Ruth Baker, and Philip Maini - Radiolaria: validating the Turing theory 383
Bernard Richards
PART VII MATHEMATICS 389
- Introducing Turing’s mathematics 391
Robin Whitty and Robin Wilson - Decidability and the Entscheidungsproblem 405
Robin Whitty - Banburismus revisited: depths and Bayes 415
Edward Simpson - Turing and randomness 427
Rod Downey - Turing’s mentor, Max Newman 437
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
PART VIII FINALE 443
- Is the whole universe a computer? 445
Jack Copeland, Mark Sprevak, and Oron Shagrir - Turing’s legacy 463
Jonathan Bowen and Jack Copeland
Notes on the contributors 475
Further reading, notes, and references 481
Chapter notes 484
Index 533