no worries- was thinking of it in the sense of e.g. classically figuring out a radio. Then it's hypothesis testing
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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I perhaps mistakenly thought given the context that the reference was being made to rev eng == cogsci
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Altho I'm kind of really exhausted (by life not this exchange specifically). I was stating how I see things, which it
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seems to me is very diff to you both. That's great though as I also believe sci is not a monolith and shouldn't be.
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To show you understand something you have to create a simpler version of it. A model that is identical to the phenomenon being
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this is what "reverse engineering" does. At least in the sense that engineers use it.
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yes, a lot of modelling contains within it engineering principles. Especially in my case software eng principles.
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But the overarching goal is not as it would be if you reverse eng'ed a radio to eventually be able to create radios.
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AI and robotics which are heavily into engineering (incl rev eng) would be aiming to build a brain, cogsci isn't imho.
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but this is my *opinion* and not some kind of prescriptive rule which is what I think you think I am pushing. I'm more
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than aware that enough modellers in cogsci do think of it as rev eng and do want to build a brain.
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