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When Models Replace Reality, by Mark Keenan

24 June 2026 at 05:00
Modern science is no longer used primarily to describe reality, but to construct models that are then treated as reality itself. This shift spans cosmology, climate science, pandemic response, and artificial intelligence. Across these domains, models increasingly mediate how reality is interpreted, from theoretical structures in cosmology, through institutional policy models in climate science and...
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