Dear Terry,
No, I don’t agree that “ANY and EVERY perspective on design that focuses on design as choosing selections from within a solution space must naturally assume that design is not a purely human activity, and instead can be computerised and automated.”
Design involves intention and choice. Only humans and some non-human animals possess agency, that is, the capacity to intend or to choose.
Jerry Diethelm and Lubomir Popov explained why it is impossible to computerize and automate all design activities or render them in quantitative algorithms either in theory or in practice. Posts by M P Ranjan, Klaus Krippendorff, Don Norman, Charlotte Magnusson, Lars Albinsson, and Eduardo Corte-Real also shed light on this. There is no need for further comments on my part.
You have argued here and elsewhere that our paradigms and views make it impossible to understand the conclusions you hold after decades of research.
This leaves two questions.
(1) Most of us aren’t going to change our ways. Why try to change the minds of people who are incapable of working with your ideas?
(2) There seem to be communities of research and practice where people share your paradigm and your views. You inform us that their work is years ahead our work.
Why aren’t you publishing your advanced quantitative design research in journals and forums for engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists, and specialists in artificial intelligence and algorithmic thinking?
Yours,
Ken
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