#model #simplificaiton [[All knowledge about the world is a model]] In order to understand, humans have to simplify Our models fall short of representing the real world fully The perfect model is not the model that best represents the world around us, but, instead is a model that in some ways *exaggerates certain aspects of the world we are most interested in (at the expense of others)* and can help us solve the problems we are looking at. ![[All models are simplifications of the real world.png]] > Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful > -- Goerge Box