floofloof@lemmy.ca to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 9 months ago'Humbling, and a bit worrying': Researcher claims that models fail to fully explain record global heatphys.orgexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1176arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squaremetaStatic@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down7·9 months 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-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·9 months 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…