PCI #2 - Litterature review and empirical facts

What is the meaning of embodied in the litterature review and empirical facts ?

Searching for material to support a research and an idea isn't fundamentally difficult, but being embodied in the literature review and empirical facts takes you further than this. The first thing isn't about any research, it's about understanding. You can't just stay in a comfort zone of you usual approach, you have to understand as much different approaches as possible on your subject. There is probably as much different angles of view on one subject as there is people studying it and if we want to research further on it, we first have to try those different angles. And then while reviewing literature and searching empirical facts, this ability to change the point of view must be used to fully understand the context of whatever material we are studying and thus fully understand the material itself. Furthermore, as a paper is written mostly for external readers, it’s important to identify what is actually relevant for others more than for yourself.

What is a fact for Orlikowski and Iacono ? (Mind Over Machine, chapter 3)

The fact that is stated this chapter's argument is that a level of artificial intelligence comparable to the human mind cannot be reached. Of course this chapter is a state of the art at one precise moment, the models of AI presented there have been surpassed by newer ones since then. Especially, the neuron-net models and connection based procedures are really close to the way of operation of internet which is nowadays and good way for AI to have access to knowledge and even to assess the relevance of this knowledge. But this fact, AI cannot reach the level of intelligence of a human mind, because of the limitations they present and mostly because we simply don't understand totally the human brain, remains true today. This is a fact. The empirical facts and experiments they present to corroborate this fact may not always be still relevant today, but the argument of the authors still holds despite it and this is what makes it a fact and not just a hypothesis. To come to their conclusion they studied the different approaches researchers have tried for the last 10 years and assessed their relevance. They made categories and searched for the limitations applying to each category. They used the conclusions of theses researches as facts to establish their point.