[barberousse]

>The author is almost making it seem like models are reality and that people think that. They're not and I don't think anyone has ever thought they were...

The author is arguing that when there is a "monopoly" of models with respect to a given domain, like the brain, that inexorably tends to make the conceptual distinction between model/reality irrelevant. The author then goes on to cite examples of this, not only with respect to our current age's infatuation with the IP model, but _previous_ ages own repetition of this with respect to their own guiding technological framework (hydraulic engineering and the humors, etc)