{"id":1174,"date":"2012-05-23T13:49:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T13:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2012-05-23T13:49:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T13:49:03","slug":"1174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/23\/1174\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Can something be “simulated” without mathematical language to describe the relationships and rules of the aspects of the simulation? Can a complex phenomenon– a complex system–be simulated without formulae?<\/p>\n

Sometimes, but with one major caveat: there must at least be data. Without data, the simulation would be purely fictional without undergirding, and therefore not really be a simulation of some thing at all, but rather a new thing in itself.<\/p>\n

So what if the data is incomplete? Does that make a simulation (at least in the traditional sense) impossible?<\/p>\n

Maybe.<\/p>\n

Not good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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