Should we fear AI? Its “founder”, Alan Turing didn’t think so.

In the future, will machines be able to dream? To feel? To think.

Code-read. A “bombe” used at Bletchley Park by Turing and his team.

“The interesting question is, just because something thinks differently from you, does that mean it’s not thinking? Well, we allow for humans to have such divergences from one another. You like strawberries, I hate ice-skating, you cry at sad films. What is the point of… different tastes, if not, to say that our brains work differently, that we think differently?” — Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.

What will you find if you take a person’s skull and lop off the top portion of their head? According to the Academic, Daniel C. Dennet — what you do find does not resemble “the seat of the soul”, but gray matter. You may have heard that term on medical dramas, because: if a person is covered in it then you can be pretty sure they’re as good as done. Grey matter is so named (quite logically) because the inside of a human head is gray. Not blood red or yellow or blue. But gray. I suppose when you think about it, that makes sense — most human thoughts are hardly kaleidoscopic in content.

Cognitive scientists have also contributed to the idea that the most important mechanism in the human body is broken into compartments. The hippo-campus is one (it’s where your memory, or “hard drive” is stored and it’s where you will find plenty…