#concept
A model is an abstraction of the [[World]].
It is in the same sense, a representable, intelligible portion of the world.
We do not understand the world but through the model.
A model is at the intersection of fiction and non-fiction.
https://www.neroeditions.com/docs/reza-negarestani-engineering-the-world-crafting-the-mind/
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*Johannes Kepler, Model of the Universe (Solar System), from Mysterium Cosmographicum, 1621*
***Jay W. Forrester, World2 model, base for all subsequent predictions of collapse such as Limits to Growth*