Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 06 – 30 AI systems, now and in the future, may function as components of an external cognitive infrastructure for scientific inquiry. Their potential roles include: (1) storing and retrieving data as an augmented external memory; (2) structuring and organizing recorded experience, functioning as an inference machine that extractsContinue reading “Excursus 038 – On AI as External Cognitive Infrastructure”
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Excursus 037 – On Hope and Despair in Scientific Inquiry
Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 06 – 30 Bacon’s warning against the “supposition of impossibility” speaks directly to a recurring problem in scientific inquiry: the tendency to dismiss certain questions or lines of investigation as inherently unanswerable before they have been adequately explored. His remedy was not unqualified optimism but what he called “trueContinue reading “Excursus 037 – On Hope and Despair in Scientific Inquiry”
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