The second definition of the term "correct" is: the brain will consider as
"correct" any prediction based on a harmonic/logic structure of models. To be
harmonic, the structure was already verified, based on IR in many other
situations. So, the only guarantee of a "correct" prediction is the confidence
in that structure of models.
MDT is associated with the basic hardware functions of the brain. Once we
described the hardware structure, everything what the MDT predicts is based on
what the hardware is able to do. What MDT says about knowledge is not another
theory on knowledge but what the hardware is able to do.
Any experiment is based on a model. That model tells us what we are doing and
the same model tells us what we get and what we see. Any model that makes the
experiment just improves itself. An improved model will make better
predictions and that is all. There is no guarantee associated with the
knowledge except the confidence in our own structure of models.
Let's see another aspect. We saw that any experiment is based on a model. The
model tells us what we did and what we get and see. If there are many persons
who participate in an experiment, everyone will make his/her own model based
on his/her own structure of models. What everyone gets and sees depends on
one's own structure of models.
Example: up to around year 1500 everybody knew that the Earth was the center
of the Universe. This idea was supported by direct observation of the sky but
also by a powerful structure of models. So, in that period, the astronomers
were able to calculate Sun and Moon eclipses, understand and calculate many
parameters associated with the movement of the Moon, Sun and stars. Even the
Holy Book supported this idea, at least in an implicit way. In that period,
the idea that Earth is the center of the Universe was correct.
I want to emphasize again that the situation is generated by the work
principle of the brain. It does not matter if we like or not this situation!
The situation will be the same forever. For instance, Newton's Mechanics
considers that there is a fundamental field of forces called "gravity".
Everybody considers that the gravity exists. But Einstein says that there is
no such a field of forces; what we see is just an effect of the distortion of
the space due to mass. If Einstein is right, the idea that there is gravity is
not correct anymore. See also the applications.
So, in every moment, the brain will consider as correct everything which is
generated by its structure of stable models.
Some scientists could consider these assertions as unacceptable, but
regardless of the fact that we like or not such a situation, the brain is able
to do only what the hardware structure is able to do.
There is another term that has some associated problems. This term is "wrong".
If a model makes wrong predictions, this usually does not mean that the model
is wrong. It means just that the model is not suitable to the given external
reality.
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