Comment on Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI 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 3 weeks ago
Again, define useful/useless? To what end do you create these models?
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Again, to understand our observable reality and make predictions.
AnDoLiN@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
To what end? What happens when you understand and can make predictions?
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can survive. From knowing that eating alleviates hunger, to knowing what to say to get an idea across, to designing new high tech that improves the quality of lives. It all requires that we model reality in some form.