Turing Lecture

About the lecture

Professor Dolan focussed on: 

• The challenges Turing faced in relation to Enigma
• Turing’s strongly Bayesian problem solving approaches
• The similarities with the problem the brain faces in making sense of its environment
• How this translates into algorithms used in decisions in relation to the world
• Extending the problem to the greater complexity entailed by an environment where there are other intentional agents
• How the approach and solutions to Enigma forged by Turing can be turned inwards, where the brain itself is the unknown, to probe mechanistic processes that give rise to the very apparatus that is the human mind

• About the speaker
• History of the Turing Lecture