阿兰·图灵 双语畅销书《艾伦图灵传》第8章:水银延时线(128)

双语畅销书《艾伦图灵传》第8章:水银延时线(128)  

He drew a Darwinian parallel:
It may be of interest to mention o other kinds of search in this connection.
There is the geical or evolutionary search by which a bination of genes is looked for
the criterion being survival value.
基因的组合过程，就是一种自然的进化搜索，其标准就是生存法则。
The remarkable success of this search confirms to some extent the idea that intellectual activity consists mainly of various kinds of search.
The remaining form of search is what I should like to call the 'cultural search'.
As I have mentioned
the isolated man does not develop any intellectual power.
It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men
whose techniques he absorbs during the first enty years of his life.
He may then perhaps do a little research of his own and make a very few discoveries which are passed on to other men.
From this point of view the search for new techniques must be regarded as carried out by the human munity as a whole
rather than by individuals.
This was a rare revelation of his self-perception. It was a dignified and generous response to the lessons of 1937 and 1945
when others had e forward with ideas equivalent to his own—so much more realistic than the usual worrying about 'priority'
with its implicit fear of cheating and copying

and so free of the male petitiveness which was by 1948 being more and more evident in science.
He never claimed more than that 'some years ago I made an investigation into what could be done by a rule-of-thumb process
' when referring to his own part.
And of course this had been yet another of the lessons of 1941
that it was the search of the whole Bletchley munity that mattered so much.
But that very fact might perhaps have made him wonder more as to whether the operation of the brain 'without interference' was really the right way in which to focus attention.
The very existence of these social or cultural levels of description was an indication that individual 'intelligence' was not the whole story. This question was not developed in this essay.
Meanwhile
his ability to stand back from the individual struggle was certainly required in adjusting himself to work with the rival puter that had been developed at Manchester.