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On Radical Uncertainty, "Phantastic Objects", And Blowing Bubbles - David Tuckett

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Can We Be More Confident in One Narrative Than Another?

A.N. Whitehead, the physicist who talked about misplaced concreteness says models are in fact all imaginary. The model should be seen as something belonging in an abstract world and is ultimately imaginations of the future. We can never talk about the decision being right because by definition, if there is an uncertain to you, you can never know if you're right. But it's how people manage that, it is at the heart of all decision making. And you can have a process that can make that better or worse.

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