Representational theory of mind
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A mental representation (or cognitive representation), in philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology, neuroScience, and cognitive Science, is a hypothetical internal cognitive symbol that represents external reality,[1] or else a mental process that makes use of such a symbol: "a formal system for making explicit certain entities or types of information, together with a specification of how the system does this". Essentially the brain is thought of as a computer, where the idea is that the brain is hardware and the mind is software.[2]
References
- ↑ Morgan, Alex (2014). "Representations Gone Mental". Synthese 191 (2): 213–44. doi:10.1007/s11229-013-0328-7. https://philpapers.org/archive/MORRGM.pdf.
- ↑ Vision. A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information The MIT Press (2010). ISBN 978-0262514620