Jim Cross wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 1:12 pm
Other than that, I don't know how I can get you to understand that this is NOT everything is models.
Not to belabor the point, but if as you suggest:
1. reality builds models (including consciousness as a model)
2. builds physical models, out of physical 'substance', builds models out of itself
therefore, even if we grant that reality began as nonmodel matter, it converts itself into models.
When everything is a model you don't have models anymore - you are right back to where you started.
(for example thought experiment-> reality converts itself into model airplanes)
3. reality selects for bigger brains
ultimately the cosmos is one model, one brain.
Perhaps you are saying reality shows restraint and only builds model once in a blue moon, or maybe the physical models are of that mystery substance ie 'emergent properties'