I have a "mental map" of the streets of Santa Fe. I can plan a route to the dump, or even alternative routes, which I can then successfully follow. Model or figment?
I'm sure you've heard many times that all models are wrong; some are useful. Frank Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Apr 22, 2017 5:01 PM, "glen ☣" <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/22/2017 11:44 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > "I argue that this mental model is a figment of your imagination..." > > > > In other words, a mental model. > > Heh, no. Despite being a huge term that covers almost everything under > the sun, "model" _does_ at least require a referent. A purely imaginary > construct has no referent. It is purely imaginary. So not just any old > brain fart can be called a "mental model". And whatever you and Vladimyr > mean by "mental models" are pure imaginary brain farts with no referent. > I.e. they don't exist. Anyone who uses the phrase "mental model" has zero > idea what they're talking about, because they're talking nonsense. >8^D > > I do grudgingly tolerate "conceptual model", FWIW, only because I believe > we can/might eventually find neural correlates of concepts, like when, say, > one's pupils dilate in response to an attractive person. A conceptual > model would then be a system of physiological activity that _maps_ to some > phenomena in the outside world. But, it's important that if there's no > _map_ to the outside world, then it can't be a model. I.e. no measure, no > model. > > -- > ☣ glen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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