I'd say that at least one thing I mean by representation is that it causally mediates mediates behavior. If I change the state of the representation, then the behavior will change.
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Replying to @robamacl @Meaningness and
So, we might say the position of the bimetal strip in a (old) thermostat resents the temperature. If I push on the strip, I can change that and make the furnace go on.
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Replying to @robamacl @Meaningness and
Likewise, if someone stole a stone from the shepard's basket, his behavior would change. But no such effect from the stones the passing girl has.
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Replying to @robamacl @OortCloudAtlas and
Well, this was the main topic of philosophy of mind in the 80s, and I think it’s reasonably fair to say that it ended with everyone giving up and moving on. Dennet was one major player. The problems are hairy and not easily summarized.
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Replying to @Meaningness @OortCloudAtlas and
Yeah, that's why I was asking if there was any book, ideally one that doesn't spend too much time explaining things I do understand in weird philosophical ways. Not too keen on reading Heidegger, and think I understand the high order bits of that anyway.
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Replying to @robamacl @OortCloudAtlas and
When an intellectual movement fails, usually everyone is too burned out and disgusted to write up what went wrong, which means that the lessons are not available to subsequent generations, who make the same mistakes again.
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Replying to @Meaningness @robamacl and
This happened with logical positivism, and JUST as it collapsed in the 50s, cognitive science got started, and recapitulated all its mistakes, and when it collapsed around 1990, no one wrote it up, so cognitive neuroscience did round 3 of the same starting just around then.
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Replying to @Meaningness @robamacl and
Part I of The Eggplant tries to go through all the ways these movements made the same mistakes, which is super tedious, which is why no one has ever bothered to do it before.
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Replying to @Meaningness @robamacl and
The draft of Eggplant Part I is still very rough but is complete; if you’re interested I can do a quick read-through and see if I’m willing to let anyone look at it yet!
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Replying to @Meaningness @OortCloudAtlas and
I would be delighted to be an alpha reader, and can give feedback at any level you want to deal with.
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Thank you very much!! As it happens, I already wanted to ask you, specifically, to read one section of it, and hadn’t quite yet gotten around to doing so. I’ll do a reading pass over it and see whether it’s even alpha quality yet.
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