If the subject is seen as a system rather than a thing you can make some progress. On the one hand we have Artificial Intelligence, where insights from cognitio

If the subject is seen as a system rather than a thing you can make some progress. On the one hand we have Artificial Intelligence, where insights from cognition and biology are used to model and explain reasoning and behaviour. On the other we have AI where people use the outcome of Artificial Intelligence research with other pragmatically selected technical components to develop technology. I think that there is interdependence and exchange between the two, but they have different methodologies and processes. I also think that huge trouble is created when members of one community use the other communities clothes and achievements. For example Artificial Intelligence researchers talking about the practical impact of AI and near term application of their work and conversely AI researchers claiming that their work "works like a brain".