[FRIAM] What is an object?

[Marcus Daniels]

Glen writes:

<    Data driven modeling takes a different approach.  It _attempts_ to derive models *directly* from the biology (as directly as possible, anyway), rather than going through us (obviously fallible) human abstraction machines.  Machine learning is an attempt at this.  Teh *-omics are attempts at this.  Etc.  And while it's (currently) true that such modeling efforts remain, in general, less efficient and effective at building useful models, they are making some progress.  E.g. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180712/Study-suggests-database-analysis-better-predicts-toxicity-of-chemicals-than-animal-testing.aspx  >

This reminds me of how some say that dogs don't have shame or dogs don't love you, etc. that the head-hanging is just an empty learned behavior to get along with humans.
Who says humans are any different?

Marcus