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The three centuries since Newton have been devoted to a goal in the Natural Sciences which consists, in the words of Herbert Simon, in showing “that complexity, correctly viewed, is only a mask for simplicity”. An important tool in the realization of this goal was the idea of the model, viewed as an artifact of some sort, connoting “resemblance from without, rather than within” (Simon, 1969). Its purpose is to serve as a map, as it were, to many new statements; and its essential ingredient is that distinct and different physical systems can be organized to exhibit nearly identical behavior. Experience has shown that there is a direct relationship between the degree to which the system to be represented is poorly understood, and the heuristic power of simulating models.
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Werner, G., Whitsel, B.L., Petrucelli, L.M. (1972). Data Structure and Algorithms in the Primate Somatosensory Cortex. In: Karczmar, A.G., Eccles, J.C. (eds) Brain and Human Behavior. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95201-2_12
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