1951
His fascination with computers had a complementary aspect
He was particularly self-conscious at things that other people accepted without thinking
Thinking and doing, the logical and the physical
It was the problem of his theory and the problem of his life
Can you feel what I feel?
Can you think what I think?
Can we sleep together as lovers?
Can we think and feel the same thing?
As he walked down Oxford Road in Manchester, he caught the eye a young man
Arnold Murrey was nineteen, currently unemployed and very hard up
Alan invited him to lunch
Explained that he worked on an electronic brain
And asked him to come to his home for the weekend
They didn't have much in common to talk about but found links
Alan talked about astronomy, played tune on the violin, and let Arnold have a try
Can you think what I feel? Can you feel what I think?
He said with perfect emphasis at one point
Alan made it clear that he wanted them to sleep together, as lovers, and this they did
Can you feel what I feel?
Can you think what I think?
Can we sleep together as lovers?
Can we think and feel the same thing?
Everything has changed
The Manchester bells were ringing for the death of King George VI
The new Queen Elisabeth flew back from Kenya
And it was on that very evening that the detectives paid the call
It did not take them long to detect Alan Turning's crime
The case was heard on 31st of March 1952
Which one of us has to ring
Alan
The verdict quivered between the old and the new dispensations
And came down for the new scientific alternative to prison
He was placed on probation
With a condition that he submit for treatment by the duly qualified medical practitioner
At the Manchester Royal Infirmary
It was chemical castration
Never far below the surface lay the highly traditional equations
Between sodomy, heresy, and treachery
The government ministers said the homosexual is now automatically
Considered a security risk
Alan wrote: Turing believes machines think, Turing lies with men
Therefore machines do not think