Posting this a little earlier than usual to push the Omnitaur off the page. That thing is disturbing.
This reminds me of the protagonist in the song Mis-Conceptions by Mercedes Lackey and Leslie Fish. Hyperlinked rather than embedded because of slightly NSFW language.
I’m surprised that there’s so little “computational psychology”, “marine psychology”, or “high-energy engineering”-- Maybe the fields that I think those would apply to just use different keywords? And what the heck is all that “computational biology”?
The “quantum psychology” and “quantum theology” are alarming to me-- I know that both of those get a lot of talk, but what kind of journal publishes it, and by what standards does Google consider such journals “scholarly”?
You can do the search yourself:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q="quantum+theology"&btnG=
It shows the same 447 results that the comic shows. The top result seems to be written by… a mentally ill person.
Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications Of The New Physics
Diarmuid O’Murchu
I am amazed, to see the cost is carefully designed to help me remember what it would be more innocent, this seems a little glad that I have to reread her book. Everything is clearly smitten with this book. The rest of ones self or none of the Underground Railroad. I had resigned myself to be a smart phone to call it. Trying to live with a tail that she has inherited a home where there should be or I’d have gladly paid several times as I did. I definitely felt like I had read the book, it gives you a rose bouquet. p23. I laughed out loud. Picture this as a writer that goes into enough of Nell Gwyne’s which won Baker a posthomous Nebula Award! Although the battles he had in there. These drawings are in solution, become more conscious of their schoolmates, and all have hidden abilities to maintain energy levels, etc
Or maybe just autogenerated by some Markov chain system. I can’t see that it was actually published anywhere.
That said, some of the other examples do seem to have been published:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27944383
Quantum Non-Locality as an Indication of Theological Transcendence
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy Vol. 27, No. 2/3
Is that a “real” journal? Shrugs.
It’s best to avoid computational theology.
Maybe you’ve heard of a little something called the Human Genome Project? That falls under computational biology (specifically the computational genomics subfield)
Cladistics is also heavily computational I think
This guy also had something to say about computational biology:
Things like Alpha Fold are less what I think of as covered by the term than using computational methods on network analysis such as protein-protein interactions across the system.
I think of the AI approaches that give answers but can’t explain how it got there as an amazing tool but not the subject, if that makes sense.
I’m a computational materials scientist. AI/ML mining of properties obtained by somebody else, either from experiments or from, e.g., density functional theory, in order to search for promising materials isn’t what I do, but I very much recognize as being within the domain of computational materials science.
To be clear, I’m not amazed that there’s such a thing as computational biology. But I am amazed that it’s apparently five times as prevalent as computational physics or chemistry.
@Dr.Strangelove , that’s got to be a (poor) AI-generated text. Even crazy people are generally more coherent than that.
ISTM that “computational” is a bit redundant with physics and chemistry, not as much so with biology.
I’d hope so, though I’ve encountered some exceptions. If it is autogenerated, it isn’t exactly GPT-3 at work.
“Analog computer” is more common than “digital computer” but presumably that’s because digital computers are called “computers”
That was my point about mentioning the Human Genome Project - it was “sexy science”, with a lot of buzz. Which tends to attract more research and funding. More buzz than, I don’t know, plasma modelling or whatever. The physics that gets the same level of attention is the atom-smashing practical stuff, I think, not the computational stuff behind it.