Representation & Mental Models

Primes about structures that stand in for an absent or unwieldy target during reasoning: representation as structured mapping, mental models, shared mental models, personas, and theory of mind, plus the transfer of learning across contexts and the error of mistaking the model for the thing.

7 primes in this family — primes that sit near one another in abstraction space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its structural–framed character and how distinctive (sparsely-neighbored) it is.

• Fallacy Of Misplaced Concreteness — — · distinctive
• Mental Model — mixed-framed · mid
• Persona — — · distinctive
• Representation — mixed-structural · crowded
• Shared Mental Model — — · mid
• Theory Of Mind — — · distinctive
• Transfer of Learning — mixed-structural · crowded