You're exactly right that people confuse the model with reality. And it's not just the laypeople who do it. The vast majority of scientists do it as well. Because what they understand of reality they learned from the model, to them the two are one and the same.
You're exactly right that people confuse the model with reality. And it's not just the laypeople who do it. The vast majority of scientists do it as well. Because what they understand of reality they learned from the model, to them the two are one and the same.
And it's not just the laypeople who do it.
Yep. Have had discussions with a physicist who thought I was speaking tongues when I stated this. He literally thought the universe is based off of his math. He didn't understand the math describes an approximation of reality. Sometimes highly precisely so, but an approximate description of it nonetheless.
> And it's not just the laypeople who do it.
Yep. Have had discussions with a physicist who thought I was speaking tongues when I stated this. He literally thought the universe is based off of his math. He didn't understand the math describes an approximation of reality. Sometimes highly precisely so, but an approximate description of it nonetheless.
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