“MIT is about making models.” Ah, that is our world. The technological world creates models that explain the past & the future. But...what does that tell us about truth? All we can say is that the model predicts the future & explains the past. We could refine the model...
Poetry is not a model of the world. Poetry sings the world into existence. It intuits the rhythmic order to all. This is why poetry is the foundation of science, technology, philosophy & all else. Reality precision. “The poets are the hidden legislators of the world.”