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From: fordjm@byuvax.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Another vote for comp.cog-sci (was Re: time for sci.ps
Message-ID: <84fordjm@byuvax.bitnet>
Date: 20 Jan 88 16:52:21 GMT
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Here's my vote for the creation of comp.cog-sci as a separate group.  The
users of comp.cog-eng occasionally make it plain that this is a *human factors*
group and this somewhat limits the topics discussed there.  There are several
cases, such as the unwillingness of many comp.ai people to permit discussion
of symbol grounding last fall, which indicate that such a group would fill
an important need.

I agree that sci.psychology might be too broad.  I aalso think that something
like sci.cognition or even sci.cogsci might make the distinction we seem
to want more clear.  I think it is best not to make the group another comp.--
group, but to set it off from that field the same way that sci.lang is.

Comments?

John M. Ford         fordjm@byuvax.bitnet

"The main problem with computer scientists is your inability of being able
to express yourselves." --a BYU comoputer scientist