the primrose path

I can speak to it! I feel he's missing that it's not man vs. woman, but rather embodied vs. disembodied. I think he's correct that about the influences of Turing's own experiences as a gay man, but it seems to me much clearer and simpler to recognize that what Turing creates is a point about intelligence and humanity being a function of disembodied communication, regardless of the body you find yourself in. Which has both good and bad implications, and I really think we're only just now starting to explore what embodied computing and intelligence might look like - the Wii, as a trivial example - and recognize that cognition and intelligence resides not just in the brain but in the body too.