do you consider figuring out a radio as reverse engineering? For me the process is about rebuilding it.
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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studied (= simulation to some) offers no explanatory account. Something sci aims to provide. It might predict, but not explain.
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