In research, both problem finding and problem solving are important. Surprisingly often, problem finding is more important than problem solving.
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These were out-of-the-blue, not addressing existing issues, and the set up the system of narrative metaphors that shaped AI through to the end of the symbolic era. (And arguably to the present day in some ways.)
I don't explicitly remember, but it may well have been reading Agre that primed me to think along these lines. I used to read his Red Rock Eater newsletter, and tonnes of other things he wrote.
