Supercollider critics should learn from history

What Should AGI Learn From AI & CogSci?

While the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive science (CogSci) both originated from a deep interest in the same phenomenon – intelligence – and both setting themselves high aims in their early days, each has since greatly narrowed its focus, and all but abandoned their core subject for a more limited version of the phenomenon. The many non-obvious causes for this change over th...

What Should Philosophers of Science Learn From the History of the Electron ?

From natural history to the history of nature. Readings from Buffon and his critics

WILLIAM B. BEAN, Walter Reed. A biography, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiv, 190, $12.95. I enjoyed reading Dr Bean's life of Walter Reed. Its style and content fall somewhere between the writings of Paul de Kruif and Gwyn Macfarlane's life of Howard Florey. In fact, there are striking resemblances to Macfarlane's book, as the author has been to enormous trouble...

Hypnotic history: a reply to critics.

This article responds to comments on Kirsch, Mazzoni, & Montgomery (2007). Contrary to the perceptions of some commentators, the target article was not aimed at supporting a particular view of hypnosis. Instead, it was a reminder of a long accepted axiom in hypnosis research: the effects of hypnotic suggestions cannot be attributed to hypnosis unless it is demonstrated that the same suggestion ...

Semantic Search Guidance: Learn From History

User queries submitted to web search engines are not always informative enough for retrieving the related pages to the user intention. The main problem is that users may not know the best query items they should enter to get the most related web pages to their intentions. They may not be familiar with the specific keywords in that domain knowledge. A user may remember only a part of the phrase ...