> Nowhere else in science is a mathematical model of something considered physically identical and interchangeable with the entity being modelled
you can make the argument that everything in science is a mathematical model... if you measure a basketball arcing through the sky, you are not actually privy to any existential sensing of the ball, you are proxying the essence of the basketball using photons, and even collecting those photons is not really "collecting those photons", etc.
you can make the argument that everything in science is a mathematical model... if you measure a basketball arcing through the sky, you are not actually privy to any existential sensing of the ball, you are proxying the essence of the basketball using photons, and even collecting those photons is not really "collecting those photons", etc.