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Download the app today. A doctor sliced into his patient's chest, opening her up for surgery.

He knew he had to be very careful.

This patient was already so weak, there was a good chance that she would not survive this

operation.

But without the operation, this patient's

body would continue to fill with fluid, especially in her lungs.

It would make it impossible for her to breathe.

So when the patient's chest cavity was opened up and her organs were exposed, the doctor forced a long needle into her lungs and then retracted the syringe.

It immediately filled with yellowish fluid. The doctor filled several more syringes with liquid from each lung,

and then after that he began just draining the fluid from the rest of her organs and body tissue.

Over the next two hours, the doctor drained more than a gallon of fluid from his patient's body.

The doctor sighed as he stitched his patient back up,

relieved that she'd survived the operation, but only time would tell if she would survive

the illness. Because to this point, the doctor had no idea what was actually making her sick, and

he knew if he didn't figure it out soon, her illness would kill her. I'm Afu Hirsch, I'm Peter Francopan, and in our podcast, Legacy, we explore the lives of some of the biggest characters in history.

This season, we delve into the life of Alan Turing. Why are we talking about Alan Turing, Peter?

Alan Turing is the father of computer science,

and some of those questions we're thinking about today

around artificial intelligence, Turing was so involved in setting and framing

what some of those questions were, but he's also interesting for lots of other reasons

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