If simulations are programs, don’t they just tell us what we program it to?
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The simple answer is that knowing the rules of a system does not always give you an intuitive understanding of what the result will be of those rules interaction with each other over time.
An easy example is chess. The rules for chess are pretty simple. You can learn them in a few minutes. But that doesn’t mean that you can “solve” chess. You can’t beat a grandmaster just because you know how all of the pieces move.
This is called “emergent behavior”. Complex systems wind up behaving in ways which humans can’t predict because the interactions are too complex to track in our heads.
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