BI 113 David Barack and John Krakauer: Two Views On Cognition
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A More Sophisticated Concept of Representation
When we talk about representation, we're not just talking about any internal state of the system that helps immediate behavior and can carry information about the external world. In addition, we're talk about these more sophisticated internal states that can be manipulated inside the system. For instance, an example i like to use has to do with planning a vacation. And you have a representation of a plane in your mind when your planning thisvacation, but there's no plane in your environment right now that's causing that representation. So there's some internal process that causes that representation, even though you're not in the presence of planes. You can think about things that don't exist, and so on and
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