The Babylonian Map of the World... was a clay tablet about the size of a first-generation iPhone... Accuracy was an afterthought.
Ptolemy ventured to create a true-to-life representation... shifted the way of thinking from storytelling to describing reality.
Mental models help us to understand things more fully... you have to build a "latticework" of mental models... to maximize your understanding of different situations.
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