2022-11-09 Wed 13:06 PM ![[Pasted image 20221109132035.png]] You can see the world as full of affordances—interaction points at which you can affect it. The world-model you're running, like a map^[[[The perfect map is impossible]]], highlights certain aspects of the world and hides others. Among those highlighted and hidden things are affordances. This is where models matter: if you miss the affordance to grab something great, or to avoid something terrible, you're gonna have a bad time or at least a time worse than the one you could have been having. ### [[MOB]] @ 2024-07-16 Tue 11.25am > Back at Einstein’s house after their walk from the institute, engaging in the requisite small talk along the way, Einstein launched into why supporting a theory only on observations is not enough. We are never in the presence of raw data, unadorned by theory, he told Heisenberg; rather, “it is the theory which decides what we can observe.”[30] > —W. Heisenberg, Gesammelte Werke, C3:92, translation from W. Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond, 63., from [[Ref. William Egginton 2023 - The Rigor of Angels]]