Comment on Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works
AnDoLiN@lemmy.zip 2 days agoA model is an understanding of how it works.
“Models work because they help us make better models, and we know better models work because… they’re better models.”
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think maybe you misunderstand what a model is in this context. It’s any way of mapping observations to a theory of how things work. I would say a good model is one that can create useful testable predictions. This tests the accuracy of the model, and it also provides for innovation. You can have a model based on a random sky fairy magically doing stuff and writing a book about it. But that model is untestable, and useless.
AnDoLiN@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Again, define useful/useless? To what end do you create these models?
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Again, to understand our observable reality and make predictions.
AnDoLiN@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
To what end? What happens when you understand and can make predictions?