Modeling the World
The world is full of "agents" who are informed by "signs" about certain "things." This is the basic principle discussed in the modeling the world lecture. Signs are everywhere in the world, and are part of the human, every-day life. In fact in my opinion, humans need signs to get through each and every day, and it is our benefit to have signs that help us react to different circumstances. The lecture notes state that a model is "any complete and consistent set of verbal arguments, mathematical equations, or computational rules which is thought to correspond to some other entity, its prototype." The prototype being anything in our world, conceptual or physical. Models are used to explain different things for different circumstances as signs are just representations. Models are used in our world to simplify the vast complexity of life on the planet earth. I guess it is hard to grasp everything that goes on, but modeling is used all over. Some basic examples are weather patterns, such as temperature, pressure, climate trends and things like that. I'm sure reading more into the process of modeling would help, and I am also sure that modeling is not as hard and complex as it seems.
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Well how hard modeling is depends on what you are trying to model-if its a living cell for example, things become really complicated!Because even a verbal description in this case is quite involved.
--Bharat
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