<p dir="ltr">On Dec 23, 2013 8:22 AM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> With the possibility of low cost instruments and data loggers, we are mechanizing one aspect of science: we can collect observations. But those instruments cannot ponder what they are measuring. We have the possibility of a stunning replication of observational opportunities, but at the same time we may be suffering from a decline in our collective capacity to interpret what we are seeing.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Why does this bother you? The solution is obvious: find a way to mechanize the pondering too. Some folk have already been doing this, albeit only with laboratory demonstrators so far.</p>