"These are things that I, as a chemist, don't consider, the market dollars and cents," says Weiss. "Do we license the technology?
At bottom, she knows, a blind chemist does the same things any other chemist would do: gather and analyze data and look for trends.
If the example in Figure 11(a) is reported as having a formula of C14H28Fe2[CO][OC], the chemist does not need to be convinced that there is a problem: this is not the chemical composition of the molecule, which means that knowingly submitting this representation to a database is tantamount to scientific fraud, and therefore something must be done about it.
He looks set for a great future, but blunders badly when he accepts information from a collaborator without checking.In later life, Snow insisted that by vocation he was a writer, though he trained as a chemist and did important research in infra-red spectroscopy the main tool in the 1920s and early 1930s for unravelling the structure of molecules.
The chemist doesn't know that.
Her first job was as a chemist (where she didn't actually help invent soft-serve ice cream, but hey whatever gets the Atlantic those hits), but she eventually became a barrister.
Just as early chemists did not have a clue about the complexities that would eventually emerge about the nature of these atoms, so cognitive scientists probably do not have more than very general ideas about the character of the computations and representations that human thought actually involves.
Mr. Hodgson, in this way, has long approached comedy as a chemist in a lab does, noodling with a drug protocol to make it more effective.
Versions of the semantic conception differ in their views about the character of models, sometimes taking models to be abstract mathematical structures, susceptible to precise formal specifications, and sometimes taking them to be more concrete (as chemists do, for example, when they build models of particular molecules).
