C.A.R.A. asbl
Centre d'Assistance
à la Recherche et à la
Formation en Architecture

Informations pratiques :

• 18:00 – 20:00 15 March 2013.
• Emplacement The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL,  Royal Ear Hospital, Ground Floor, Capper Street (corner of Huntley Street), London, WC1E 6AP.
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Extrait :

Turing makes an (implicit) distinction in the passage from his ‘imitation game’ (the 1950 paper on a computer imitating a woman) and the ‘model’ paper (his 1952 work on bio-physical morphogenesis). The model tries to spell out a ‘causal structure: in the 1952 paper, the continuous mathematical dynamics of a genesis of forms as an ‘action/reaction/diffusion’ system. An imitation only pretends to mimic, or to cheat an observer, without commitment on the causal structure of the intended phenomenon: a discrete state machine (DSM, as Turing calls his Machine in 1950) imitating a brain.

A finer comparison will be hinted by analyzing the way randomness is treated by the imitating/modeling technique…