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BI 150 Dan Nicholson: Machines, Organisms, Processes
Brain Inspired
All Models Are Wrong, but Some Are Useful
When you do a metaphorical read description, what you're redescribing is going to be different from the source domain. So anyway, you can come up with a number of reasons why this is a problematic way or a wrong way of thinking about life. And then George P. Box is often quoted as saying, all models are wrong, but some are useful. I suppose the same, you could just switch out models with metaphors in that statement. Absolutely.
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