Glossary
The process of removing physical, spatial, or temporal details or attributes in the study of objects or systems in order to more closely attend to other details of interest.
The most common use for Internal Model is to refer to the model of reality that you or I carry around in our heads. You can regard the concept of Internal Model as being what you know and what you think about a certain situation.
Obviously, because we've all had different experiences, and our brains are wired up differently, everyone will have a different Internal Model of reality.
Alternatively, we can use the term Internal Model to consider other viewpoints:
- Within an organisation, we might consider the Internal Model of a team of people to be the shared knowledge, values and working practices of that team.
- Within a software system, we might consider the Internal Model of a single processor, and what knowledge it has of the world.
- A codebase is a team's Internal Model written down and encoded as software.
An internal model represents reality: reality is made of atoms, whereas the internal model is information.
