I am usually reasonably good at translating from math to non-abstract intuitive examples...but I didn’t have much success here. Do you have “in English, for simpletons” example to go with this? :-) (You know, something that uses apples and biscuits rather than English-but-abstract words like “there are many hidden variables mediating the interactions between observables” :D.)
Otherwise, my current abstract interpretation of this is something like: “There are detailed models, and those might vary a lot. And then there are very abstract models, which will be more similar to each other...well, except that they might also be totally useless.” So I was hoping that a more specific example would clarify things for a bit and tell me whether there is more to this (and also whether I got it all wrong or not :-).)
I am usually reasonably good at translating from math to non-abstract intuitive examples...but I didn’t have much success here. Do you have “in English, for simpletons” example to go with this? :-) (You know, something that uses apples and biscuits rather than English-but-abstract words like “there are many hidden variables mediating the interactions between observables” :D.)
Otherwise, my current abstract interpretation of this is something like: “There are detailed models, and those might vary a lot. And then there are very abstract models, which will be more similar to each other...well, except that they might also be totally useless.” So I was hoping that a more specific example would clarify things for a bit and tell me whether there is more to this (and also whether I got it all wrong or not :-).)
I recommend skipping to the next post. This post was kind of a stub, the next one explains the same idea better.