> I would even say that a physical object is merely a touchable proxy for a mental model. This resembles Plato's Theory of Forms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

> I would even say that a physical object is merely a touchable proxy for a mental model. This resembles Plato's Theory of Forms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Forms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Forms > These Forms are the essences of various objects: they are that without which a thing would not be the kind of thing it is. For example, there are countless tables in the world but the Form of tableness is at the core; it is the essence of all of them.