Over the last one week the two major influences on my existence have been a class on behavioural finance and my fourth re run of harry potter and the half blood prince.
That is when I made a queer observation. There is a visible common ground between mental models and magic potions, both flatter to deceive.
Mental models are as much an expression of our whims as are magic potions, If we were able to actually make models to map human thought it would be a worthless exercise.
The whole beauty of a human brain is its unpredictability, if we were able to actually deduce behaviour then human beings would end up becoming nothing more than zombies.
Magic potions on the other hand are accepted whims of our imagination but if they were actually true they would in essence suggest the presence of mental model. This can be deduced from the fact that magic potions cause a particular behavioural reaction in human beings and if that were true then the person would be abiding by a mental model.
The one thing I did learn rather re-learn in the behavioural finance class was the concept of proof by contradiction, which I have done above , if you have not understood it yet then let me elaborate.
Theory to prove: mental models don’t exist
Contradiction to proof: mental models do exist
Parallel: magic potions exist
Fact: magic potions don’t exist
Deduction: Magic potions cause mental models
Contradiction: If mental models are caused by magic potions and it is a fact that magic potions don’t exist then mental models don’t exist .
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