Mental Self Simulation {ReadingNotesBeingNoOne}

Box 5.4 p281

Mental Self-Simulation: S-Sim_M (S_T, X, S_R)

• S is an individual information-processing system.
• S_T is the system as a whole, possessing a true teleofunctionalist description.
• S_R is a counterfactual state of the system, as available for its own simulation capacities.
• X simulates S_R for S_T.
• X is a physically internal system state.
• The intentional content of X can become available for introspection₃. It possesses the potential of itself becoming the representandum of subsymbolic higher-order representational processes.
• The intentional content of X can become available for introspection₄. 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.