Science: the Enterprise of Pattern Recognition

If we regard science as the human enterprise of understanding the natural world, we might regard computer science as the computer’s enterprise of understanding the artificial world. We have language, memory and structure for our knowledge representation. Computers have their own language, memory, and structure, which comprise their “understanding”. Careful investigation into epistemology and methodology in computer science will help us to apprehend scientific methods. By analyzing machine learning, this paper studies human learning in retrospect, including topics of inductivism, falsificationism, scientific realism, paradigms and incommensurability. We shall see that all these problems are linked up by patterns, both for machines and for humans.