Turing and Grice: The Implicature Game

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Turing was conceived in what is NOW Chhatrapur, -- then an economically backward area. He was born in a nursing home in Paddington.

O. T. O. H., Grice was conceived and born in the Heart of England, so-called -- actually an affluent suburb of Brum --, then Warwickshire.

Alan Mathison Turing was conceived in what is now Chhatrapur, Ganjam, Orissa, India, a town on the Bay of Bengal. See these pictures of computer learning in the Ganjam of 2005, described as a economically backward area. In 1911 this was at the extreme northern end of the Madras Presidency of British-controlled India. His father Julius Mathison Turing was a government official, and his Irish-born mother Ethel Sara (née Stoney) had also spent much of her life in India, where her father was an engineer. From the start, Alan Turing was an outsider, yet born at the heart of the British Empire at its zenith. Genealogy of the Turing family.	The Turing world of 1912
He was born in a nursing home in Paddington, London on 23 June 1912. It was then called Warrington Lodge.Now it is the Colonnade Hotel, in Warrington Crescent, London W9. Street map here. This building was a nursing home from 1885 to 1935, but then became the Esplanade Hotel, and was used by many refugees from Europe. In 1938 Sigmund Freud, as a refugee from Vienna, stayed there briefly.	Freud outside the hotel in 1938.
Alan Turing was to become, like Freud, an explorer of the mind. But his life would not make him famous like Freud. And it was to lead to a different kind of exile.