Thanks for your thoughtful (very) reply to my query about mental models.
I've just purchased but haven't read, "Learning as a Way of Being." I've
only cracked the covers and skimmed. But, it looks to be very
interesting. The index has no reference to models at all, mental or other
wise.
If mental models exist, don't they exist afterward . . . as a
representation of (an) experience? So, if we are dependent on models to
communicate or make sense, we are never communicating =right now=. Are
not mental models representations?
Is not the question of being and the present an issue here?
I'm still grappling with how it is that (mental) models have become part
and parcel of current thinking.
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