Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 05:51:59 01/05/03
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On January 05, 2003 at 08:34:21, Alessandro Damiani wrote: >>If a field is very advanced it becomes harder and harder to make contributions. >>Why do you think people go to school for 9 years, then another 7 years to get an >>education? And inspite of all your knowledge, how much did you contribute to >>math or chemistry sciences? >> >>Getting new and good ideas is not easy when they have all been "taken". >> > >This is wrong. History proved that: in the past classical physicians thought >they knew almost everything of physics. They were not physicians. They were not even scients, they didn't know the basic principles for good science, so obviously they came to a lot of wrong conclusions. >They *really* thought there would be >only some isolated cases that had to be explained. This was until Einstein came >and pushed the horizon of knowledge to a higher level! Today you need billions of dollars and 20 years of university study to make history. If all you want is to do something no one has done before, it would have been easier to do 200 years ago. >The horizon is artificially made by human beings, more precisely by their >theories. Only such a horizon makes you thinking "if a field is very advanced it >becomes harder and harder to make contributions.". > >We should not think like a chess engine: "there is nothing beyond the search >horizon.". There is no real horizon. What good is it to use an idea in your program if everyone else is using it too? It's status quo, you go nowhere. -S. >Alessandro But chess is not a scie
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