We have no control over what specific ideas will emerge, how they will fit together, or what further ideas will arise to improve the fit. While we cannot anticipate what specific ideas will come to us, we can know something about the patterns that the ideas will follow as they unfold. The following discussion establishes the basis for those patterns, goes on to describe them in some detail, and then considers the setting in which they flourish. The Formal Basis of Emerging Ideas Conceptual Structures Definition. These are sets of relationships that model the data of our experiences and the relationships arising from that data.
Conceptual structures are the foundation of our understanding.
They enable us to tell dogs from cats, to predict that a person who has twice stolen our wallet probably is not to be trusted, and generally to go about the business of making sense of the world. Conservation of energy. To accomplish this it packages information in an orderly configuration for ease of handling like packing clothes neatly and snugly in the smallest possible suitcase. The elements of experience are organized into the least costly configurations, taking into account the elements' inherent properties and their relation to the configurations currently operating in one's psyche. Best-Fit Ideally speaking, there are two kinds of configurations.