Mental Models
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Mental Models
Author: Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird
language: en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: 1983
This book offers a unified theory of the major propertries of mind, including comprehension, inference, and consciousness. The author argues that we apprehend the world by building inner mental replicas of the relationships among objects and events that concern us. The mind is essentially a model-building device that can itself be modeled on a computer. The book provides a blueprint for building such a model and numberous important illustrations of how to do it.
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
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Mental Models
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