brainstorms fragment out of context:
It’s also that any system in our heads is a model, as the thing itself is ‘out there’ (although we may also be a part of the model as well!)… Recalling that it is a model accentuates the fact that there are as many models as there are [fill in the blank]. Plurality rules, whether we like it or not! And none of them are the ‘thing’ itself. Talking, thinking about systems is an immediate reduction to model state rather than the whole of the whole. In a way it’s all about how we relate/react to the plurality.