SUO: Re: Sociology of Citations
Jean-Luc,
Actually, the most important concepts have been
elaborated many centuries ago:
JLD> History is interesting, but no matter how deep and
> far you dig it does not seem that a SINGLE relevant
> problem of the day (month, year, era???) has been or
> is about to be solved by concepts elaborated so long ago.
Most of the new ones are variations and decorations
pasted on top of the old ones. If you want to understand
more than the surface glitter, you have to dig into the
foundations.
JLD> So, does anybody know WHERE some hint of progress
> is currently showing up?
Yes. Read my paper on the foundations:
http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/signproc.htm
Signs, Processes, and Language Games
And for a view of some technology that is currently
being built on those foundations, I recommend two
other papers:
http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/arch.htm
Architectures for Intelligent Systems
http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/analog.htm
Analogical Reasoning
John