  In a recent article, Luciano Floridi explains his view of Turing's legacy in
connection to the philosophy of information. I will very briefly survey one of
Turing's other contributions to the philosophy of information and computation,
including similarities to Shannon's own methodological approach to information
through communication, showing how crucial they are and have been as
methodological strategies to understanding key aspects of these concepts. While
Floridi's concept of Levels of Abstraction is related to the novel methodology
of Turing's imitation game for tackling the question of machine intelligence,
Turing's other main contribution to the philosophy of information runs contrary
to it. Indeed, the seminal concept of computation universality strongly
suggests the deletion of fundamental differences among seemingly different
levels of description. How might we reconcile these apparently contradictory
contributions? I will argue that Turing's contribution should prompt us to plot
some directions for a philosophy of information and computation, one that
closely parallels the most important developments in computer science, one that
understands the profound implications of the works of Turing, Shannon and
others.

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