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        Date: 2024-09-18 05:08:06+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: side by side

Here's a question I am pondering and would like some help with.

Much is written about modelling, a bit of it by me. But I am bothered by
the built-in assumption that the role of the machine in this instance is
to imitate the modelled object or process as closely as possible or
practical. If, however, we juxtapose the computational machine as we
know it to a human process or practice, neither to model the latter by
the former nor to do a point-by-point comparison but to hold the two in
mind in order to see what happens, what happens then? Where might one
find a way to think about this situation?

Comments welcome.

Yours,
WM


--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews;  Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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