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Evolution of Complex Behavior, Perception, Cognition, Consciousness & the Brain | Paul Cisek | 107

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The Concept of Representation in the Brain

The term representations as you know is a real problem in the field and mostly I think because people mean different things by it. There's camps that believe everything the brain does is manipulation of representations, be they symbolic or distributed. And another camp that says no, no, representations are not allowed, we have to talk about behaviors etc. So I'm sort of in the middle. I think it's useful maybe to think about them as a kind of a continuum.

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