Re: simulation as a causal/inferential "chimera"

[Howard Pattee <***>]

Steve,

I prefer your general usage of model as anything that satisfies the 
Hertzian commutation condition. But Tim and Judith are discussing what 
Rosen meant. In Tim's opinion (and I think I agree with him) Rosen's 
distinction between model and simulation must be preserved if his overall 
thesis is to hold up logically.

Howard

At 09:33 AM 12/31/04 -0800, Steve wrote:
> True the entailments in the hardware do correspond to
> the entailments in the airplane but we need to keep in
> mind that in the case of a computer simulation the
> right side of the simulation is NOT just the causal
> entailments of the hardware but entailments of the
> hardware PLUS the inferential entailments in the
> software put in by humans. So in this sense a computer
> simulation is a Causal/Inferential chimera but as a
> whole it fulfils the commutativity condition so why is
> it not a model.