Why do many people in this world seem intellectually limited? It's because they lack a stable and scalable mental model of the world. Humans don't engage with reality directly; instead, we understand information through an internal model. In cognitive science, this is called: mental models, cognitive frameworks, or schemas. These frameworks serve three functions: filtering information, explaining causality, and predicting the future. For example: people with an economics framework will explain prices using supply and demand relationships. People with scientific thinking will ask "what's the evidence?" and "what are the variables?" People with a conspiracy theory framework will interpret events as behind-the-scenes manipulation. Different frameworks reveal different worlds. People without frameworks exhibit these characteristics: they can only understand the world through emotions, cannot process complex causality, and are easily manipulated by narratives.

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