On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Colin Geoffrey Hales < [email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.edge.org/response-detail/25377 > > > > *Neil Gershenfeld* <http://www.edge.org/memberbio/neil_gershenfeld> > > *Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms; Author, FAB* > > > > Totally agree: He blames Turing and von Neumann > > > > So do I. > > > > We stopped doing real empirical work on the inorganic brain 60 years ago. > We failed for 60 years to make an inorganic brain. > > > > Computer “Science” was never and never will be an empirical science at > all. It is 100% the experimental exploration of theoretical models .... and > has been generationally systemically confused with empirical science. > > > > Party’s over. > > > > Cheers > > Colin > > > That guy makes the mistake of believing computer science is about computers, which is the same error as believing astronomy is about telescopes. (Borrowed from a possible quote from Edsger Dijkstra) Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
