Mental Representation {ReadingNotesBeingNoOne}

Box 2.1 p21

Mental Representation: Rep_M(S, X, Y)

• S is an individual information-processing system.
• Y is an aspect of the current state of the world.
• X represents Y for S.
• X is a functionally internal system state.
• The intentional content of X can become available for introspective attention. It possesses the potential of itself becoming the representandum of subsymbolic higher-order representational processes.
• The intentional content of X can become available for cognitive reference. It can in turn become the representandum of symbolic higher-order representational processes.
• The intentional content of X can become globally available for the selective control of action.