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Article #427Re: cogsci vs ai
From: SWANN philip
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:26
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:26
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In article <1993Jan9.161208.28266@psych.toronto.edu>, christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes: > In article <C0Jtrw.H6r@athena.cs.uga.edu> jsahasi@aisun2.ai.uga.edu (Jayesh Sahasi [MSAI]) writes: > >Can someone explain the difference between the fields of AI and CogSci??? > > AI is but one subdiscipline in CogSci, which is essentially interdisciplinary. > Other component disciplines include psychology, philosophy, linguistics, > and -- depending on who you talk to -- neuroscience and anthropology. > I think it would be more realistic to say that CogSci is the "intersection" or "lowest common ground" or optimistically "highest common something-or-other" of various other disciplines. It's role is a bit like statistics - abstracting and exploring analytical and modelling tools common to one or more discipline's (including AI). Philip Swann
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Newsgroups: sci.cognitive Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!chx400!news.unige.ch!divsun.unige.ch!swann From: swann@divsun.unige.ch (SWANN philip) Subject: Re: cogsci vs ai Message-ID: <1993Jan11.132616.3330@news.unige.ch> Sender: usenet@news.unige.ch Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland References: <C0Jtrw.H6r@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1993Jan9.161208.28266@psych.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:26:16 GMT Lines: 16