The Best Definition of a Mental Model

i have a sort of technically inspired tion in the book, as you may recall. So us something called tha belief desire intention model of michael brotman. And it's been the basis of a lot of artificial intelligence research. That's one sort of effective way to get at defining what a mental model is. It's a set of beliefs, desires and intentions. But i think that sort of definition is useful for certain narrow hnical needs,. People have similar sort of technical definitions. Politics. The lakoff has one based on conceptual metaphor. All these narrower, technical definitions of mental models are useful for certain certain questions but they're too tailed and deep for a general