Friday, January 19, 2024

We model EVERYTHING!

 

My position is a broad philosophical one. We model EVERYTHING!  I'm rather trapped in my purist view.  By my definition, all that is possible are mental models thus we can not truly observe any objective reality. Now I’m not trying to dis the scientific process – it’s the only logical/rational means that is coherent.  What I mean is humans can not trust the mental models we construct of the experimental process we can only model an interpretation. Mathematics is a wonderfully logical abstraction however it to is subject to our internal modeling process for interpretation. That said it provides huge guidance for us.

I can not think (model) of how I can exit this logical trap. Nor can I think of why evolution might have developed a means for us to escape the modeling trap if the underlying driver if evolution is just advancing survival if a universe of entropic soup is true? Very frustrating for me.

So, the scientific process allows us to logically investigate the objective reality about us but we remain trapped in the model everything paradigm. I am faced with questioning everything while believing my mental thoughts are always (infinite?) models of all questions as that is what I am?

Regarding N and S, both still are modeling. As far as I expect there is no single modeling function. This might rock your socks a bit but not only do humans model, I think the entire universe models!  I don’t believe humans are highly unique in any fundamental way.  It’s not surprising to me that there are groups with common models and that we identify them and create models of these groups.  It’s what we do.

Language is another fascinating modeling.  Not to devel into that here but it does not surprise me that AI (large language models) are getting faster and better able to create consistent and coherent results.  Compared with human modeling (thinking) I expect AI will struggle to be as innovative given its narrow access to data though it is expanding with sound and visual data.  For me that reflects well with my view of modeling for survival ie human modeling is highly specialized. 

Need more coffee – take care!

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