in my opinion it's part of design technology and engineering.
a lot of/most eng esp materials science has been reverse engineering imho. Like when Europeans were figuring out porcelain.
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sorry, forgot about the convo! In this sense would you consider modelling as reverse engineering?
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no cos to me modelling is about understanding. A model is not a copy. A direct copy of a brain is another brain. I can create
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a human brain in 9 months. Does creating a child make me a good modeller? (Facetious question but perhaps needed.) No.
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the baby comment is immensely distracting. they are made neither by copying nor by reverse engineering.
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but they would be the best model for a previous participant. ;)
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I feel like you both (?) or at least just D thinks that this the first time I have come across this argument. It's a
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I lost what the argument was - can you summarise? Rev eng is not science? Or rev eng is not understanding?
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I stopped when I realised I had no idea what the argument was.
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another problem is that words like science and engineering are used confusingly and inconsistently.
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