Lab 4

“Modeling of the World” was good at describing the models for us. This also gave me a sense of what they can do for us. The basic principal discussed in the lecture was that the world is made up of many agents who become informed by signs about one thing or another. I think that as humans we would be far behind if we didn’t have signs in our everyday life to tell us what we need to know. Models provide several purposes including data analysis, control, interpretation, prediction and understanding key aspects. They can also help us understand many different things. Some models are used to explain different things for different situations, in the same way that signs are like representations. Models are helpful and we should learn how to make more use of the models that are given to us.