# Internal Models **Domain:** Cybernetics / Cognitive Systems **Doc Type:** Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Good Regulator Theorem]], [[World Modeling]], [[Model Contestability]], [[Cybernetics]], [[Schedule and Loop]] ## Definition **Internal models** are representations a system uses to predict, interpret or regulate the behavior of itself, another system or an environment. ## Schedule–Loop Context The loop differs from the schedule because it models the regulated interior. A model can enable responsive adaptation, but it also concentrates interpretive power; governance therefore requires access, correction and contestability rather than treating prediction as jurisdiction. ## Backlinks - [[Schedule and Loop]] - [[articles/Schedule and Loop|Schedule and Loop]] - [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]