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One person picked it up.
Alan Turing was a mathematician. But his real gift was something rarer: he took uncomfortable questions seriously.
Most people looked at “Can machines think?” and moved on. Too vague. Too philosophical. The kind of question that sounds deep but leads nowhere.
Turing did not move on. He stayed with it, turned it over, looked for the part he could actually work with. That habit of refusing to abandon a question just because it was hard is what made him the right person to ask it.