A swan, a pike, and a crawfish walk into a bar

摘要

The closing line of Krylov's fable - 'The cart's still there today' - has become a proverb in the Russian language, commonly used to bemoan the lack of progress in a collaborative undertaking. I submit that in the present case, however, the situation is not all that gloomy. The swan, the pike, and the crawfish should just go off and have a drink together, because the cart of cognitive science already is pretty much where it needs to be: right underneath the tree of knowledge, from whose trunk spring tier after tier of leafy branches and whose roots reach deep into the loam of computation. When we return from the pub, we can help each other onto the cart and pick some fruit.