Mental Simulation {ReadingNotesBeingNoOne}

Box 2.3 p44

Mental Simulation: Sim_M (S, X, Y)

• S is an individual information-processing system.
• Y is a counterfactual situation, relative to the system's representational architecture.
• X simulates Y for S.
• X is a physically 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.