These two questions seem very similar. We all carry a model of the world in our heads, and when the model doesn’t seem to provide answers we develop uncertainty in its usefulness. An intelligence will then seek a modified model to hopefully eliminate the uncertainty. Mostly a trial and error process, although the trials can be informed by other’s reports of what worked for them.
This can take on religious overtones, as one definition of Enlightenment is when our model of the world is perfectly congruent with the world as it is, and we truely see the world for what it is (or is not) instead of what our minds project.
1. It is possible to have a perfect model of a system but still have some uncertainty about the state of the system because your observations are restricted in some way, or are simply noisy.
2. It is possible to have no model of the system but know the current state completely. In this case you would be prevented from making any kind of prediction about future states of the system.
You can suffer from both an imperfect understanding of the world state and the way the world state evolves over time. Then things get tricky.
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These two questions seem very similar. We all carry a model of the world in our heads, and when the model doesn’t seem to provide answers we develop uncertainty in its usefulness. An intelligence will then seek a modified model to hopefully eliminate the uncertainty. Mostly a trial and error process, although the trials can be informed by other’s reports of what worked for them.
This can take on religious overtones, as one definition of Enlightenment is when our model of the world is perfectly congruent with the world as it is, and we truely see the world for what it is (or is not) instead of what our minds project.
These questions are similar but not the same.
1. It is possible to have a perfect model of a system but still have some uncertainty about the state of the system because your observations are restricted in some way, or are simply noisy.
2. It is possible to have no model of the system but know the current state completely. In this case you would be prevented from making any kind of prediction about future states of the system.
You can suffer from both an imperfect understanding of the world state and the way the world state evolves over time. Then things get tricky.
Let me know if you come up with an answer.