{"title":"Understanding the Natural and the Artificial Worlds","authors":"H. Simon","doi":"10.7551/mitpress/12107.003.0004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter contains sections titled: The Artificial, The Environment as Mold, The Artifact as \"Interface\", Functional Explanation, Functional Description and Synthesis, Limits of Adaptation, Understanding by Simulating, Techniques of Simulation, Simulation as a Source of New Knowledge, Simulation of Poorly Understood Systems, The Computer as Artifact, Computers as Abstract Objects, Computers as Empirical Objects, Computers and Thought, Symbol Systems: Rational Artifacts, Basic Capabilities of Symbol Systems, Intelligence as Computation, Economics: Abstract Rationality","PeriodicalId":416408,"journal":{"name":"Shaping Entrepreneurship Research","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Shaping Entrepreneurship Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12107.003.0004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This chapter contains sections titled: The Artificial, The Environment as Mold, The Artifact as "Interface", Functional Explanation, Functional Description and Synthesis, Limits of Adaptation, Understanding by Simulating, Techniques of Simulation, Simulation as a Source of New Knowledge, Simulation of Poorly Understood Systems, The Computer as Artifact, Computers as Abstract Objects, Computers as Empirical Objects, Computers and Thought, Symbol Systems: Rational Artifacts, Basic Capabilities of Symbol Systems, Intelligence as Computation, Economics: Abstract Rationality