>A programmer's job is to get the computer to do what you want, not somehow model the world This so exactly mirrors an ongoing debate in cognitive science. Pro

>A programmer's job is to get the computer to do what you want, not somehow model the world This so exactly mirrors an ongoing debate in cognitive science. Programmers and philosophers should be talking about representation versus affordances and situated cognition. Actually I suppose the same thing goes back to Chomsky vs Skinner.