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But usually, I’m much more interested in modeling the real-world phenomena of interest directly, rather than modeling someone else’s models of it.

If you can do so you should. But it often isnt straightforward....there is no deterministic algorithm for building a model One proposes and tests a hypotheical model, another proposes and tests another. Two models can stand unfalsified by evidence, in which case you need to look at the models themselves to.decide between them.

I already have strong reasons to doubt the existence of ontologically fundamental mental entities.

Maybe but the reasons given there aren’t strong