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Thursday, 08 September 2005 | MENTAL MODEL
As I was spring cleaning today, I came across a scribbled note amongst my uni notes. I don't know who wrote it, I'd love to know so if anyone knows please email me so that I can reference the quote. It's an inspiring insight into the way our minds store information...
"Every person carries within their head a mental model of the world-
a subjective representation of external reality.
This model consists of tens of thousands of images.
These may be simple as a mental picture of clouds scudding across the sky.
Or they may be abstract inferences about the way things are organised in society.
We may think of this mental model as a fantastic internal warehouse,
an image emporium in which we store our inner memories...
Every persons mental model will contain some images that approximate reality closely,
along with others that are distorted and inaccurate".
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