How do you tell the difference between an agent that reasons about "the external world" and
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not sure I understand the distinction you're making, specifically, what is the distinction between model and explanation?
if a model is optimized for making predictions, it may not be useful for e.g. producing counterexamples to other models
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by "explanation" I mean a thing that acts on existing models to change/improve them
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really though, the only reason I could say that of the former is that it is "under-specified" compared to the latter
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so the former *might* be useful for explanations, or maybe not. but the latter seems optimized for something else
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(also, everything I'm expressing here is based on my present contending with Popperian epistemology)
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