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        Date: 2023-11-08 13:33:06+00:00
        From: Henry Schaffer <hes@ncsu.edu>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.292: computational science is part of the problem

How could humans have invented tents, stone walls, spear points, and log
cabins "when our human brains do not operate that way"?
--henry

On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 2:09 AM Humanist <humanist@dhhumanist.org> wrote:

>
>               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 292.
>         Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
>                       Hosted by DH-Cologne
>                        www.dhhumanist.org
>                 Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org
>
>
>
>
>         Date: 2023-11-07 09:40:38+00:00
>         From: Dominic Oldman <dominic.oldman@gmail.com>
>         Subject: A quote and question about designing information systems
>
> “It is far more useful to view computational science as part of the
> problem, rather than the solution. The problem is understanding how humans
> can have invented explicit, algorithmically driven machines when our human
> brains do not operate that way. The solution, if it ever comes, will be
> found looking inside ourselves”.  Merlin Donald.
> -----
>
> How does this impact the design of digital information systems? I don't say
> humanities information systems because I think we reached the stage some
> time ago, in terms of how knowledge is, and should be generated, that the
> problem is universal across all disciplines, given the current status of
> what science is.
>
>
> Dominic Oldman
> Kartography CIC
> http://www.kartography.org



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