@floofloof@lemmy.ca to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish • 1 year ago'Humbling, and a bit worrying': Researcher claims that models fail to fully explain record global heatphys.orgexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1179arrow-down11
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minus-squaremetaStaticlinkfedilink-5•1 year agoWe don’t have perfect knowledge of the system we’re modelling, of course the model falls short of reality. I see it as the manifestation of Terence McKenna’s idea of model theism. We create a model of the world and then worship it as a god.
minus-square@Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink8•1 year ago I see it as the manifestation of Terence McKenna’s idea of model theism. We create a model of the world and then worship it as a god Sounds like the climate change denial equivalent of the “atheism is a religion” nonsense that the stupidest Christian apologists keep spewing…
We don’t have perfect knowledge of the system we’re modelling, of course the model falls short of reality.
I see it as the manifestation of Terence McKenna’s idea of model theism. We create a model of the world and then worship it as a god.
Sounds like the climate change denial equivalent of the “atheism is a religion” nonsense that the stupidest Christian apologists keep spewing…