Some Fundamental Issues in

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Some Fundamental Issues in Design

• Definitions of design
• Normative logics (modal logics)
• predictive models inherently risky
• not usually quantifiable
• learning by failure (Petroski)
• Complexity - bounded rationality
• (Simon) the meaning of rationality when the
  complexity of the environment is immensely
  greater than the computational powers of the
  adaptive system

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• Hierarchy - composition - independence
• emergence in complex systems? (Systems Theory)
• examples
• 10 worth of chemicals in jars vs. human being
• buffer overflow
• courseware
• ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
• reduce complex problems to those previously solved

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• Social Values
• we can gt we will ?
• descriptive vs. normative argumentation
• science vs. ethics
• larger social implications and consequences
• deskilling
• economic implications, family structure and crime
• the AI metaphor
• spiritual implications?