The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 2,888 atoms across 3 types and 2 molecules
Abstraction necessarily discards information from the reality it represents, retaining only selected features deemed relevant while eliminating detail.
No human has direct access to reality; all knowledge is mediated through neurological processing and linguistic abstraction layers that filter and structure experience.
Mental models have structural correspondence (isomorphism) to the situations they represent, with relationships between model elements mapping onto relationships between real-world elements.