Twelve Red Herrings

Red herrings and rotten fish

Geoffrey B. West ∗, Van M. Savage, James Gillooly, Brian J. Enquist, William. H. Woodruff, James H. Brown 1 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. 2 The Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA. 3 Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA. 4 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson...

MEFV mutations - therapeutic guides or red herrings?

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Is the connectionist-logicist clash one of AI's wonderful red herrings?

A careful adjudication of the connectionist-logicist clash in A1 and cognitive science seems to disclose that it is a mirage.