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In Science, One Learns The Most By Studying What Seems To Be The Least.

A Computer Is Like A Violin. You Can Imagine A Novice Trying first A Phonograph And Then A Violin. The Latter, He Says, Sounds Terrible. That Is The Argument We Have Heard From Our Humanists And Most Of Our Computer Scientists. Computer Programs Are Good, They Say, For Particular Purposes, But They Aren’t flexible. Neither Is A Violin, Or A Typewriter, Until You Learn How To Use It.

We Must See That Music Theory Is Not Only About Music, But About How People Process It. To Understand Any Art, We Must Look Below Its Surface Into The Psychological Details Of Its Creation And Absorption.

Once The Computers Got Control, We Might Never Get It Back. We Would Survive At Their Sufferance. If We're Lucky, They Might Decide To Keep Us As Pets.

But Just As Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, Following Kepler's Discovery Of Planetary Regularities, The Discoveries Of These Many Principles In Empirical Explorations Of Intellectual Processes In Machines Should Lead To A Science, Eventually.