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ANNOTATION:
Correspondence to Reality
The comments "In cybernetic view, thought works because it implements some models of the world, not because it somehow statically reflects it," does not chase away the idea that there is some reality "out there" to be discovered. It only gives an alternative means to discovering the outside world.
A model is a "rough" copy of something. Certainly, there may be competing models, such as weather prediction schemes, and we might hang on to several until one out-predicts the others. The assumption of having a model at all, however, is that there is something "out there" to be copied. The cybernetic view, then, does eliminate the static correspondence to reality, but does not eliminate correspondence to reality.
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