  It is important to note that Turing identified his prototype neural networks and genetic algorithms as computable. This has to be emphasised since the word ‘nonalgorithmic’ is often now confusingly employed for computer operations that are not explicitly planned. Indeed, his ambition was explicit: he himself wanted to implement them as programs on a computer. Using the term Universal Practical Computing Machine for what is now called a digital computer, he wrote in (Turing 1948):