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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
4. The Encodings of Time
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Abstract
In the preceding sections, we have seen many examples of modeling relations, which have spanned a wide range of physical and biological contexts. Most of the models and metaphors we have introduced have involved dynamical processes, and the manner in which the inferential structure of a formal encoding represents the dynamical properties of the natural system so encoded. This is indeed the main thrust of the entire book; to determine how we may employ formal models of natural systems to make temporal predictions about the systems themselves, and ultimately to utilize such predictions to modify the systems’ present behavior. In order to accomplish this, we must investigate modeling relations involving dynamical systems in more detail than we have heretofore done.