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Herbert A. Simon believes there鈥檚 entirely too much natural science about.
Why should engineering鈥攖he avocation which makes things happen鈥攏ot
get the status of science? His The Sciences of the Artificial (MIT,
拢12.50, ISBN 0 262 69191 4) began with lectures in 1968, and his
thoroughly-updated third edition is a must-read for his 鈥淐arnegie-Mellon
symbolicist鈥� takes on human memory and its place in consciousness, economics,
complexity, and social policy-making.