From weng@cse.msu.edu  Mon Mar  6 23:03:27 2000
From: Dr John J Weng <weng@cse.msu.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 23:03:25 -0500 (EST)
To: wdl@cse.msu.edu
Subject: WDL Dis. #23

======== WDL Dis. #23 (Bcc: all WDL participants) ======

Dear Susan and David,

Often, I am impressed by human intelligence in sensing the direction of
what is said and in projecting beyond what was meant. 
I wish that future developmental robots can have this capability :-)

> You have said that psychology should stop looking at level 5 (knowledge)
> and start to investigate (1) - (4).

No, David, I did not say "stop."  I did not say that other previous 
great phenomenal studies in psychology and AI are not important
either, because they are important as Susan said.  Yes, a lot of 
phenomenal studies will still go on for many many years to come, and 
they will enrich the knowledge of the field.  Again, ``no exclusion,'' 
please.  Scientific fields do not gain by exclusion.  They have a lot 
to gain by inclusion and comparison.   

However, young fields should move forward. It is harder to move ahead 
in a new direction than to move along the same direction.
As Thomas S. Kuhn wrote in his "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,"
when incremental changes of a field do not resolve the fundamental
problems that the field faces, a scientific revolution will take place.  

John