Mental Models & Identity LO21072

Bill Braun (medprac@hlthsys.com)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 06:30:05 -0600

Replying to LO21037 --

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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