Turing may be the most significant figure in AI, even 60 years later. Leaves you wondering where the world would be if he didn't die at 41
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I think that really sets him apart. Valiant describes him as a natural scientist first, only using the tools of CS for Natural science.
His work on biological morphogenesis is arguably his best. He seems to have dug deep into big ideas, like framing the universe as a program
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Ultimately you cannot study separately the computational nature of the mind and the computational nature of the universe
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I THINK he didn't go that far to frame it as a program, started off later? although indications are that he indeed would have believed it.
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It may or may not have started with Zuse 1967 (another genius...). But that's likely Turing's legacy: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/758b/5dcbaf99288cc35c417afbd38e98f9c2b8f4.pdf …
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I think the Morphogenesis bit is extremely beautiful (I only came to appreciate it 6 months ago due to a class), but it has its "critics" :)
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PS: the "critics" are ppl who love his digital work and its enormous import, maybe don't appreciate the foray into PDEs, bifurcations etc.
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