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Donald Vandergriff's avatar

Excellent Ponch, thank you for all the great work you and Mark are doing. I am now working with Genghis on forthcoming podcasts and promoting his book.

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Brian “Ponch” Rivera's avatar

I saw that. That is HUGE!

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Hugh Knowles's avatar

Thanks @ Ponch. Happen to be right in the middle of writing a piece about this called "All models are wrong…including yours" Looking at neuroscience and how you don’t see what’s real - you see what your model lets through.

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Adam Karaoguz's avatar

Where are those "9 features we can't eliminate" listed? Thanks for the book recommendations.

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Brian “Ponch” Rivera's avatar

358. CS Brief: 358 │ CONCEPTUAL SPIRAL

THESE FEATURES INCLUDE

• Uncertainty associated with the uncon"nement, undecidability, and incompleteness theorems of mathematics

and logic.

• Numerical imprecision associated with using the rational and irrational numbers in the calculation and

measurement processes.

• Quantum uncertainty associated with Planck’s Constant and Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle.

• Entropy increase associated with the Second Law of #ermodynamics.

• Irregular or erratic behavior associated with far-from-equilibrium, open, nonlinear processes or systems

with feedback.

• Incomprehensibility associated with the inability to completely screen, "lter, or otherwise consider spaghettilike

in!uences from a plethora of everchanging, erratic, or unknown outside events.

• Mutations associated with environmental pressure, replication errors, or unknown in!uences in molecular

and evolutionary biology.

• Ambiguity associated with natural languages as they are used and interact with one another.

• Novelty generated by the thinking and actions of unique individuals and their many-sided interactions with

each other.

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