Here we briefly reflect on the philosophical foundations that ground the quest towards ever-detailed models and identify four practical dangers derived from this pursuit: explosion of the model's uncertainty space, model black-boxing, computational exhaustion and model attachment. We argue that the growth of a mathematical model should be carefully and continuously pondered lest models become extraneous constructs chasing the Cartesian dream.
翻译:在这里,我们简要反思那些哲学基础,这些哲学基础为寻求日益详细的模型奠定了基础,并确定了从这一追求中产生的四种实际危险:模型的不确定空间爆炸、黑箱模型、计算耗竭和附加模型模型。 我们认为,数学模型的增长应当谨慎和不断思考,以免模型成为追逐笛卡尔人梦想的外部建筑。