Reading this post today, I realized I don’t actually know what the difference is between a belief and a model. I still don’t.
Models, as I understand it, are comprised of assumptions about cause-effect relationships which are themselves beliefs. I’m thinking about decision making models—where these anticipated causal effects influence what conclusion (i.e. option) is reached by a model. So a model is basically are a cluster of beliefs. But that doesn’t appear to be the idiomatically correct way to refer to both (I believe I am wrong in my usage/understanding).
Certainly in the post linked, beliefs are seen to be at odds with models. A model itself is not “believed”. And I suspect some kind of internal, intuitive meta-model of self is drawing that conclusion, and producing that belief.
Reading this post today, I realized I don’t actually know what the difference is between a belief and a model. I still don’t.
Models, as I understand it, are comprised of assumptions about cause-effect relationships which are themselves beliefs. I’m thinking about decision making models—where these anticipated causal effects influence what conclusion (i.e. option) is reached by a model. So a model is basically are a cluster of beliefs. But that doesn’t appear to be the idiomatically correct way to refer to both (I believe I am wrong in my usage/understanding).
Certainly in the post linked, beliefs are seen to be at odds with models. A model itself is not “believed”. And I suspect some kind of internal, intuitive meta-model of self is drawing that conclusion, and producing that belief.