John Edser wrote:

>>JE:-
>>Amazingly, you have admitted to "replacing the real world with
>>something else" but feel no need to explain to sbe readers
>>what this replaced "real world" was, exactly!
> 
> 
> BOH:-
> Err, pehaps the "real world" was the real world?
> 
> JE:-
> What is the above _pointless_ tautology supposed to
> mean? You are a god? You KNOW what the real word
> is so that YOU do not have to provide testable
> theories of what it MAY be?  

No, I am trying to model the real world by developing a simplified 
representation of it.  But it is the real world I am trying to 
represent.  I can then compare my representation with the real world, to 
see how well/badly it does.

Are you suggesting that I should make comparisons with something else?

Bob

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