glen e. p. ropella wrote: >> Btw, no, I don't mean [science can be pursued by a specified >> automaton]. I mean a growing, developing automaton. Evolving on its >> own accord as well as with editing by human experts. Much more useful >> than a textbook! >> > > The only problem with this belief is the vague > concept of "growing" or "progress". Growing in the sense of adding more and more ontologies for different kinds of experiments. Growing in the toolbox sense of R or Mathematica growing. Growing in the sense of machine-readable semantically-annotated data stores growing. So one might imagine internet publication of statistical regularities from automaton-initiated data mining, and then researchers (or even robots) testing them in the lab...
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