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How to optimize state of the world using mathematical model?
How to optimize the state of the world using mathematical model?
Can this be done?
What are the variable that should be considered?
What variable should be maximized?
What variable should be minimized?
Can this model help to show the right path to take?
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What if we introduce limitation to the model to make it a closed model?
Or what if we accept the unstable state as one of the solution. Can we model it then?
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- Gul'danLv 41 decade agoFavourite answer
I would say no, that the state of the world cannot actually be optimized by a mathematical model.
That isn't to say that mathematics isn't powerful enough to do it, but rather, even if we had all the variables and variable types correctly placed, there is not likely to be a optimal solution in any finite open ball around zero.
Aside from that, if there is an optimal solution somewhere, then it's almost surely unstable, so can we really call it an optimal solution, since it can't accept even small changes in state.
To summarize, since I feel I may have rambled a bit there:
(1) Mathematics is powerful enough to do so
(2) Humans aren't able to use the mathematics required
(3) An "optimal solution" doesn't likely exist.