The theoretical number of mental models is infinite. For another, a model derived from one domain may serve as an analogy. Models can be drawn from a wide range of fields: economics, biology, military, engineering, math, etc. Mental models can be compared to the blueprint of an architect or the DNA model of a biologist, with the distinction that mental models are abstract images that are intangible, and not physical. Models can be three-dimensional objects that people, like ownership or negation, can rotate in their minds or abstract concepts that cannot be visualized. Phil Johnson-Laird and Ruth Byrne have proposed the idea of mental models to explain how humans think. Metal models are tools the mind uses for thinking and making decisions. Mental models are simulations created by the mind to make sense of the world and predict.
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