NHAAS@IBM.COM (Norman Haas) (05/18/87)
(In case this point hasn't already been made, re the "Artificial Life" confer-
ence announcement a few issues back:)
Why stop with life? Let's go all the way:
1. Artificial Culture and Civilization, including
Artificial Natural Languages
2. Artificial Science, including
Artificial Research in the field of Artificial Intelligencegilbert@aimmi.UUCP.UUCP (05/21/87)
In article <8705180545.AA27470@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> NHAAS@IBM.COM (Norman Haas) writes: >(In case this point hasn't already been made, re the "Artificial Life" confer- >ence announcement a few issues back:) > > Why stop with life? Let's go all the way: > > 1. Artificial Culture and Civilization, including > Artificial Natural Languages > 2. Artificial Science, including > Artificial Research in the field of Artificial Intelligence Nah - that's not all the way. We also need 3. Artificial reasoning. This is when people who nothing about epistemology (philosophical and anthropological/sociologial aspects) or psychology lock themselves away on an AI project and make things up about how people reason. I may be oldfashioned, but I do miss empirical substance and conceptual coherence :-) :-):-) :-) :-):-) :-) :-):-) :-) :-):-) :-) :-):-) :-) :-):-) :-) :-):-) -- Gilbert Cockton, Scottish HCI Centre, Ben Line Building, Edinburgh, EH1 1TN JANET: gilbert@uk.ac.hw.aimmi ARPA: gilbert%aimmi.hw.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk UUCP: ..!{backbone}!aimmi.hw.ac.uk!gilbert