It refers to the external world, can be decoupled from current situation (future board positions being searched over have their own probabilities), has a causal role in the system's decision-making, and has been explicitly designed to play such a role by the system's developers.
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Additionally, much of what we know does not, as far as can be told, involve representations at all. A standard example is bicycle riding. Cognitivists have to say that this ability is represented unconsciously, but there’s zero evidence for that, and good arguments against it.
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So the representationalist story is that ALL mental activity, by definition, is computations over representations that are intrinsically meaningful. This runs into a slew of different problems, and is just not at all credible, and was abandoned by all serious philosophers ~1992.
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Similar to Hofstadter's article on translating Tolstoy from Russian to English accurately.
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Yes indeed!
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