[nico]

> Now our lead experimenter asks this person "what will happen if the global average temperature increases by N degreesC?" and they get an answer

What symbols or language did the lead experimenter use to ask the person the question? And what does degrees, temperature and global mean?

All of those things require models to be communicated between the components of your system

Any symbolic communication is necessarily a model of what it is trying to represent

Of course, if there isn’t someone to interpret it, it’s just symbols. But to interpret a meaning behind symbols, then it implies the symbols represent a model of the meanings that are being communicated