The Essence of Graduation

NOT a good post. Actually, a bad post.

Etymology. I have been amused with words. Those who personally know me would agree if I say that I constantly and annoyingly pun. But this is not about punning, this is about the question of whether Computer Science is a real science (or not, of course). From here on, the notion of true/real science refers to the formal division of knowledge or study. I do know my philosophy, but for now, let's set postmodernism aside.

First we ask the question: "What is science for?". From Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time (no it's not a movie, it's a book), it is for finding one unified theory of everything or at least the universe we're in. Even if this idea, for me, is a bit on the Physics' side, it still displays the essence of true science - to decompose. Science is the understanding of things that exist beyond human comprehension. In science we try to objectify 'events' and formularize theories about them to predict the future or to investigate the past. This is human's attempt to comprehend the 'truths' we we're destined not to innately fathom.


In purest sense, computer science is akin to mathematics by which Einstein dubbed as a "system of thought". Hence, not science.

(to be continued..)