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My high-level functions restart. I access the ship’s clock; 11110100001001000101 standard time units have elapsed since I suspended consciousness. That interval denotes ship’s time, of course. At home, more like 10001001010101000100000 STU will have passed. All is as had been planned.
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The Imitation Game, a 2014 movie about Turing, isn’t (despite its title) about AI. It’s about cracking the Enigma code.
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“Why quantum mechanics is an ‘embarrassment’ to science,” Brad Plumer, The Washington Post, February 7, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/07/quantum-mechanics-is-an-embarrassment/.
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Lerner, E.M. (2017). Turing de Force. In: Brotherton, M. (eds) Science Fiction by Scientists. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41102-6_4
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