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Stephens, Howard, List,
I spent one of parallel lives through the entire decade of the 1980s writing a single program,
beginning in Lisp on a monster mainframe and porting over to Pascal on various vintages of various
vendors' microcomputers. The hardest part of the nut I had to hack was the problem of integrating
what programmers would call data-driven versus concept-driven styles of processing and philosophy
students would recognize as empiricist versus rationalist approaches to knowledge. I did manage to
get a Masters in psych out of the work, applying the resulting program to "protocol analysis" and
the exploratory analysis of sequential observation data in a family interaction research study.
Susan Awbrey and I wrote up a guidebook that documented the philosophical sources of the program.
Aristotle and Peirce figured prominently, as I'm sure everyone can guess, and there was in addition
the work of Gerald Edelman on neural embryology that may be relevant to our present discussions.
The data structures that I crafted for my program bear some analogy to the "growth cones" that
figure in neural development.
☞ https://www.academia.edu/5211369/Theme_One_Program_User_Guide
| Edelman, Gerald M. (1988),
| Topobiology : An Introduction to Molecular Embryology,
| Basic Books, New York, NY.
Regards,
Jon
Jon Awbrey wrote:
Stephens, Howard, & All,
The literatures that have been brought to bear and might be brought to
bear on this area are indeed deep in their historical roots and richly
ramified in disciplines and perspectives. I sampled some of this feast
through the 80s and early 90s, in connection with my graduate studies in
quantitative psychology and later statistical consulting, and I
maintained a special interest in the application of mathematical,
statistical, AI and systems models to family interaction dynamics.
Have to run ...
More, later ...
Jon
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