Mental Self Representation {ReadingNotesBeingNoOne}

Box 5.2 p266

Mental Self-Representation: S-Rep_M(S_T, X, S_R)

• S is an individual information-processing system.
• S_T is the system as a whole, under a true teleofunctionalist description.
• S_R is the system as a representandum, that is, the subset of those properties of the system which are currently accessible for its own representational capacities.
• X represents S_R for S_T.
• X is a functionally internal system state.
• The intentional content of X can become available for introspection. It possesses the potential of itself becoming the representandum of subsymbolic higher-order self-representational processes.
• The intentional content of X can become available for introspection₄. It can become available for cognitive self-reference, that is, it can in turn become the representandum of symbolic higher-order self-representational processes.
• The intentional content of X can become available for the selective control of self-directed action.