Mental Presentation {ReadingNotesBeingNoOne}

Box 2.6 p87

Mental Presentation: Pre_M (S, X, Y)

• S is an individual information-processing system.
• Y is an actual state of the world.
• X presents Y for S.
• X is a stimulus-correlated internal system state.
• X is a functionally internal system state.
• The intentional content of X can become available for introspection₁ and introspection₃. It possesses the potential of itself becoming the representandum of subsymbolic higher-order representational processes.
• The intentional content of X cannot become available for cognitive reference. It is not available as a representandum of symbolic higher-order representational processes.
• The intentional content of X can become globally available for the selective control of action.