Hi George,
I found the Ladder of Inference piece by Rick Ross in the Fifth Discipline
Filedbook to be a great help in describing the dynamic and cumulative
effect of mental models. I highly recommend it.
Bill Braun
>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.
--Bill Braun <medprac@hlthsys.com>
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