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But the question, then, is: is there reality behind the model (or, rather, how close to reality the model is)? The answer lies in how accurate the model is. Thi

• WastingMyTime89 4y ago
  But knowing if there is reality behind the model is not a scientific question. There is no tool in science which can answer that. The only thing that matters is how well the model predicts what we observe. One can believe that’s a form of truth but people should be conscious that it is merely a belief.
  • hnews_account_1 4y ago
    This is not strictly true. The recent Nobel was such an expedition which was ignored by scientists in the 40s-70s as an esoteric philosophical question that cannot be answered. It is still not “answered” per se but Bell’s formulations leave very few choices for the base reality of the model. Observe that the model itself worked quite well regardless of the base reality. Knowing that truth doesn’t change any current applications. But who knows where it’ll lead. So knowing which model is successful and which model is real is a very important question that we must try our best to answer. Only in the natural sciences can such a question even be answered.
• pyinstallwoes 4y ago
  No matter how good a model is, a simulacrum is still a simulacrum.
• edgyquant 4y ago
  Of course not all these models are is a description of the mammalian brains tooling to make prediction. There is not a single reason to believe it’s the real nature of “reality,” whatever that is supposed to mean.