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I have a few comments, below:
Steve J. wrote: The nagging question that I always have is that
the
modeling relation is based on essentially Cartesian observer-observed dualism and seems to always regard the observer and encoding/decoding as something transcendental with respect to the model itself. The modeling relation predates the Cartesian stuff, by most of
human evolution, at the very least. Ever since human beings had a mind, there
has been a modeling relation. Descartes didn't invent this-- he was one
contributing mind in a chain of recorded history of human thoughts on
various related subjects.
Incidentally, while my father did state that encoding and decoding
are not "entailed" by anything within the model, that is a very different thing
from saying such things are transcendental. They are entailed by the modeling
relation, which in science is a human exercise. In other words, there is a
modeling process which must occur outside of the model itself, and that is what
the encoding and decoding arrows of my father's diagram refer to. The modeling
process involves the human mind.
Judith
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