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In article <C11AMs.295@world.std.com>, fw@world.std.com (forrest d whitcher) writes:
|> >it would appear that all advances are made by specialists
|>  
|>   Pardon my paraphrase, I _do_ understand what you are saying, but I have
|> rather observed that many, though certainly not a majority of advances
|> come when a specialists move between fields. Thus, molecular biology
|> became what is is when a number of physicists applied their knowlege to an
|> area which had been neglected from that point of view. Certainly in my
|> experience, engineers often miss a solution to a difficult problem because
|> the answer lies in an area in which they have not been trained.
|> 
|>   I do not think that the above observation indicates a devaluing of 
|> specialization, but perhaps that failure to look beyond the narrow answers
|> is and essential cause of dogmatic thinking.

I think this stems from the undecidability of deduction and the explosion
of knowledge. I wonder if people are interested in computer systems that
can produce knowledge (such as the procedure for constructing a pair of
Rock Shox) by applying inference rules to a giant knowledge base.


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Henry Choy
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