  The syllogistic allusion to Socrates is unmistakeable, and his demise, with cyanide rather than hemlock, may have signalled something similar. A parallel figure in World War II, Robert Oppenheimer, suffered the loss of his reputation during the same week that Turing died. Both combined the purest scientific work and the most effective application of science in war. Alan Turing was even more directly on the receiving end of science, when his sexual mind was treated as a machine, against his protesting consciousness and will. But amidst all this human drama, he left little to say about what he really thought of himself and his relationship to the world of human events.