A Guide to Modelling Social Reality
Note: This is a guide to formal modelling social reality; note that a learn cognitive structure in your brain is almost a model of reality; but an internal one.
Why do people underestimate the complexity of social reality?
- Observability: Unlike in chemistry or molecular biology, the “atoms” of social reality — people, actions, and institutions — can be seen with the naked eye. This superficial visibility creates the illusion of simplicity.
- Complex Feedback Loops and Expectations: Almost everyone is bad at modelling social reality. The challenge is no longer modelling it accurately, but convincing others that you have done so.
- Lack of Technical Capacity: Interaction, feedback loops, adaptation, emergence, and other nonlinear features make social reality extraordinarily difficult to model.
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QA:
- Why the ontic idea of system - is invalid to represent a system?