Part of Reference frames.

Knowledge is embodied in models. Not just spatial things and language, but concepts, too.

This is also why "mental rooms" are effective for memoising things.

Related:

• Connectivism learning theory
• Learning network design principles: dynamize, move through a reference frame.
• Causal explanations, not dry facts, make up the bulk of human knowledge
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• Causal models are stored in human minds in reference frames

See also:

• Brain learns mainly by forming new synapses; synaptic signals are almost binary
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References

A Thousand Brains