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sensory information is a deep structure. It’s everything that

we receive from the outside world, without mental

interpretation. In order to function in the world around us, we

need to simplify the raw material, because otherwise we

wouldn’t be able to embrace the whole.

We use language to represent our experience, as well as to

communicate it. Using language, we create maps of reality and

this is the advantage we have over other animals. Our map of

reality, which is a simplified version of raw experience, is

the surface structure. We respond to it on a daily basis. It’s
our beliefs and thoughts about the surrounding reality.

People who are successful and enjoy life in general are able

to draw from the world in a direct manner. They do not dilute

their experience by passing them through the filters of what

they “should” experience or what they expect to experience.

Many people go to the cinema to see a movie with a set of

beliefs about it. They were formed on the basis of the trailer,

written reviews or the opinions of their friends. These filters

make them receive the film differently than they would have

received it if they saw it without creating the initial
assumptions.

On many different levels of our lives, we look at the world

through the prism of an entire set of generalizations,

distortions and deletions.

Meta Model is a set of linguistic structures that are mainly
questions. It is thanks to them we are able to obtain

information that has been “hidden.” We hide this information

because then it is easier for us to communicate with others—

we can provide each other generalized information.