Frameworks, heuristics, and conceptual structures that individuals use to simplify and reason about a complex world. Charlie Munger popularized the idea of a "latticework of mental models" — borrowing concepts from physics, biology, economics, and psychology — as the foundation for high-quality judgment.
The strength of any decision is bounded by the variety of models the decision-maker can bring to it; a single dominant model produces predictable blind spots. Multi-expert AI systems are effectively a forced lattice: each Synth brings a distinct model to the same question.