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We can't know, we will never know and all speculation is facile and pointless. Your speculation, based on nothing other than a BBC web page doubly so.
by epo 14y ago
We can't know, we will never know and all speculation is facile and pointless. Your speculation, based on nothing other than a BBC web page doubly so.
- adventureful 14y agoI wasn't speculating either direction about Turing's death, but what I said regarding Copeland's statement was correct. Judging someone's state of mind by what they project externally is not an accurate approach. Taking a single psych course would inform you of that, so would knowing someone that has committed suicide without the cliche external signals.
- andreasvc 14y agoBy the same token we should give up on things like archaeology as well. We will never know for certain, but we can reason that given the evidence we do have, such and such is a likely scenario.
- gruseom 14y agoNot all speculation is pointless. There's a point in knowing that the evidence for Turing's suicide is inconclusive. A recent biography of Van Gogh challenges the evidence for his suicide too.