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Prologue
Chapter 1: "Science"
(That is: notes on science as a dynamic activity to describe and predict)
1.1 The practical value of science
1.1.1 Explore and predict
1.1.2 Phenomena
1.1.3 Between practice and theory
1.2 Scientific languages
1.2.1 Preliminary considerations
1.2.2 The value of formalization
1.3 Language and epistemic value
1.3.1 Communicability and verifiability
1.3.2 Compactness
1.3.3 Applicability
1.4 Formal and applied truths
1.4.1 Formal language as a regulative ideal
1.4.2 The limits of formal language (through machines)
1.4.3 Psychological certainty rather than truth
1.5 Limitations
1.5.1 The language of mathematics is fallible
1.5.2 Intractable problems and undecidable problems
1.5.3 Scientific discovery and the dynamism of knowledge
Chapter 2: "Technology"
(That is: notes on technology as an activity that builds machines and procedures to operate them)
2.1 In the sea of technologies
2.1.1 First intuitions
2.1.2 Observation and practical reason
2.1.3 Formulation and discovery
2.1.4 Accidental discoveries
2.2 Utility, utopia, dystopia
2.2.1 Primary and secondary technologies
2.2.2 Five parameters
2.2.3 Storytelling and technology
2.3 Science & technology
2.3.1 A complex relationship
2.3.2 Impact on society
Chapter 3: Scientific production
(That is: notes on how to support research while trying to avoid prejudice and gossip)
3.1 Publish today
3.1.1 The primacy of the scientific article
3.1.2 The literary form of the scientific article
3.1.3 The refereeing process
3.1.4 The value of the publication
3.2 Looking for alternatives
3.2.1 Against refereeing
3.2.2 Open-ended scientific articles
3.2.3 Reputation, gossip and trust
3.2.4 Trust in science as a public value
3.3 Funding for scientific research
3.3.1 Research support, quality and quantity
3.3.2 Access criteria: degrees and types of breakthrough
3.3.3 The importance of context and the streetlight effect
3.3.4 How to rethink the system?
Chapter 4: Technologies for scientific production
(That is: notes on the scalability and sustainability of the scientific and technological enterprise)
4.1 Scalability of science
4.1.1 Technology in mathematics
4.1.2 Science in a graph?
4.1.3 Technology in a graph?
4.1.4 A science database
4.1.5 Androids muse for humans or humans muse for androids?
4.1.6 A hyperscale science
4.1.7 Android and human creativity
4.2 Sustainability of science
4.2.1 Phronesis
4.2.2 Innovation
4.2.3 Communicability
4.2.4 Risk
4.2.5 The last mile
4.2.6 Ordinariness
Chapter 5: Epilogue
(That is: notes on how to guide the construction of machines for future science)
5.1 Machines and people
5.1 Science for a House of Solomon
5.2 Outline for an Almanac of Solomon
5.3 A call to action