After enrolling at Berkeley, Johnson realized that there was a need there for people like him: "These people are creating theories and models about a world they've never lived in".
He thought there was a need there for people like him: "People are getting out of high school, going straight to Cal, and then straight to grad school, and these people are creating theories and models about a world they've never lived in".
Also, such studies are necessary for creating theories of how we behave in large collaborative groups online.
This all-embracing, specifically Chinese tendency towards transcending abstract demarcations ultimately also manifested itself on the level of heuristics, with respect to the question of the nature of creating theories.
Therefore, science seems to be driven by two opposite forces: that of creating theories, and that of applying those theories to practical applications.
Also revolving around the "business of creating theories," R. Solomonoff's ideas [ 2], summarized in [ 3], contribute to the basis of Algorithmic Information Theory (AIT) [ 4], a relatively new area of research initiated by A. Kolmogorov, R. Solomonoff and G. Chaitin, and regarded as the unification of Computer Science and Information Theory.
Data analysis resembles a discussion between the actual data, the created theory, the memos and the researcher.
The players share information and create theories to explain what they've seen.
All we can ever do is to create theories or guesses about what is going on in the human-sized world in which we appear to live.
Though they may not be able to play chess or drive, two-year-olds can do lots of things that a computer cannot: create theories, make hypotheses, figure out how things work, imitate and – most importantly – learn and be creative.
