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        Date: 2023-11-07 09:40:38+00:00
        From: Dominic Oldman <dominic.oldman@gmail.com>
        Subject: A quote and question about designing information systems

“It is far more useful to view computational science as part of the
problem, rather than the solution. The problem is understanding how humans
can have invented explicit, algorithmically driven machines when our human
brains do not operate that way. The solution, if it ever comes, will be
found looking inside ourselves”.  Merlin Donald.
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How does this impact the design of digital information systems? I don't say
humanities information systems because I think we reached the stage some
time ago, in terms of how knowledge is, and should be generated, that the
problem is universal across all disciplines, given the current status of
what science is.


Dominic Oldman
Kartography CIC
http://www.kartography.org


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