[PaulHoule]

My take is that Ashby's Law rules the roost

https://www.businessballs.com/strategy-innovation/ashbys-law...

Namely you have to simplify any problem in order to talk about it, solve it, teach it (making some of those reductions) but there is a certain amount of complexity that is fundamental to the problem.

For instance you can sometimes get away with treating a concurrent process as sequential, sometimes you can't.

The reductionist prays for the wisdom to know which simplifications they can get away with and which ones they can't. If your model captures the essential features you are OK, otherwise you are lost in the woods.

[dreamlessfate]

>”Namely you have to simplify any problem in order to talk about it, solve it, teach it (making some of those reductions) but there is a certain amount of complexity that is fundamental to the problem. For instance you can sometimes get away with treating a concurrent process as sequential, sometimes you can't. The reductionist prays for the wisdom to know which simplifications they can get away with and which ones they can't. If your model captures the essential features you are OK, otherwise you are lost in the woods.”

Summed up beautifully.