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That isn't immediately true, with enough fitting parameters you can capture the effect underlying behaviour without explicitly capturing it, or even without knowing it exists.

"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." - John von Neumann [0]

[0]: https://doi.org/10.1119%2F1.3254017



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