Well not fully, but still every breath we take is an intervention and that’s not nothing.
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It's the best we can do
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"Fully" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. I can control the temperature macrostate of a gas well enough by adding or removing heat, despite the microstates being entirely able to make it deviate. Thermodynamics works because those deviations are statistically rare.
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The question is not "can we control the world" but rather "what parts of the world can we control, and how well?" This is the true map of power.
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Abstracting away those microstates is our forte.
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That seems about right to me.
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Models define states of objects. Different models deal with different scales. An object in one model is a set of 'smaller' objects in another model (reductionism). But object boundaries are permeable. Objects are not isolated. The 'substrate' is a mathematical field.
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