I've had this argument with others, I think we'll have to agree to disagree for now. Since it is named after a individual (who was treated rather shamefully by his government) it is with a capital T, as in Turing. He was gay when it was a crime to be so, and was chemically castrated by the courts. When he started growing breasts he committed suicide.I have to disagree, first, I dont really think you can call the brain a computational system, but secondly even if you call it that, no turing machine can ever simulate an analog signal or function, because a turing machine is a discrete engine and can never calculate with continuous numbers. A touring machine could aproximate a neuron, but never truly emulate it; it simply lives in a completely different world.
This after his ground breaking work during WWII, several sources claim he ended the war early and saved many lives doing so. The British government has formally apologized.
Fact is, we are not even close though. To me this says we are missing something important.