dc.contributor.author
Vallverdú, Jordi
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https://ddd.uab.cat/record/137989
dc.identifier
urn:10.1016/j.protcy.2014.02.003
dc.identifier
urn:oai:ddd.uab.cat:137989
dc.identifier
urn:recercauab:ARE-75551
dc.identifier
urn:articleid:22120173v13p6
dc.identifier
urn:altmetric_id:2311512
dc.identifier
urn:oai:egreta.uab.cat:publications/6b41c800-30fb-4326-8e6b-1f7f50f8c44f
dc.description.abstract
Contemporary sciences use a wide and diverse range of computational simulations, including in the areas of aeronautics, chemistry, bioinformatics, social sciences, AI, the physics of elementary particles and most other scientific fields. A simulation is a mathematical model that describes or creates computationally a system process. Simulations are our best cognitive representation of complex reality, that is, our deepest conception of what reality is. In this paper we defend that a simulation is equivalent epistemologically and ontologically with all other types of cognitive models of elements of reality. Therefore, simulations cannot be considered secondary nor weak instruments to approach to the reality analysis
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application/pdf
dc.relation
Procedia technology ; Vol. 13 (2014), p. 6-15
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dc.rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
dc.subject
Representation
dc.title
What are simulations? : An epistemological approach
