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Alan replied to Jack:
图灵回信给杰克：
Sept 18 48
1948年9月18日
Dear Jack,
亲爱的杰克，
I am glad to hear my estimate of no. of neurons is not too essentially wrong.
很高兴我对神经元数量的估计没有差得太远。
The chess machine designed by Champ and myself is rather on your lines.
我和晨设计的下棋机，主要是根据我的想法，
Unfortunately we made no definite record of what it was, but I am going to write one down definitely in the next few days with a view to playing the Shaun-Michie machine.
但是很不幸，我没有把那些想法明确地写出来，不过我打算过几天写一写与肖恩和米奇的机器对战的感受。
To a large extent I agree with you about 'thinking in analogies',
总体来说，我同意你关于"类比"的想法，
but I do not think of the brain as 'searching for analogies' so much as having analogies forced upon it by its own limitations ...
但我不认为大脑是在"寻找类比"，而是由于某种内在的限制，导致它不得不进行类比……
The report was handed in. Mike Woodger was very excited by the prospects it opened up, and gladly drew the diagrams neatly for the typed version.
图灵的那篇报告已经提交了，麦克·伍格很激动，并愉快地为它制作了一份清晰的打印版。
Darwin was less impressed, probably highly embarrassed by the references to Dorothy Sayers, God, and robots taking country walks.
达尔文的反应却很平淡，也许他就像多罗西·塞耶斯一样，对"机器人去乡间散步"之类的事情感到十分尴尬。
At the Executive Committee meeting on 28 September he explained sniffily that 'Dr Turing had now produced a report which, although not suitable for publication, demonstrated that during his stay there he had been engaged in rather fundamental studies.'
在9月28日的执行委员会会议上，他嗤之以鼻地说："图灵博士这段时间做了一些基础性研究，并写了一份报告，但却不太适合发表。"
The unsuitable paper disappeared into the NPL files.
这份不太适合发表的论文，被埋没在国家物理实验室的档案柜里。
Ironically, it was on 20 September 1948 that von Neumann gave a first published lecture on the 'theory of automata'—in effect, the theory of discrete controlling machines—in which he drew attention, after eleven years, to the fundamental importance of the Universal Turing Machine.
讽刺的是，1948年9月20日，冯·诺伊曼举办了第一场关于"自动机理论"的公开讲座（实际上可以称为"离散静态机理论"），在其中他强调，通用图灵机具有非常本质的重要性。
