Glossary
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.
