E.g., there’s no direct coupling of my knowledge that Ouagadougou is the capital of Burkina Fasso to Ouagadougou. I have no idea what it looks like, how to get there, etc. This *can’t* be grounded in my personal perception or action (so some versions of “enactivism” are wrong).
If my characterization seems like a straw man, it’s because you weren’t there in the 1980s...hard representationalism was the mainstream view. During the 80s, there were bitter arguments about what makes something a representation, which ended in general acknowledgment of failure
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My thesis tried to combine computationalism, interactionism, and social grounding. I still think something like that is probably right (and we agree that representations of some sort play some role). However, no one has been able to work out a credible theory of this.
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Your criterion 1 won’t work, unfortunately. It’s critical to being a representation that something can be mistaken. This is the key starting point for BCS’s account (cc
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I’ve really enjoyed lurking through this conversation and hope to read up so as to actually understand it some day


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Depending on why you are interested… I would recommend against it. There’s masses of complex confusion that finally resulted in an insurmountable impasse. No cheese at the end of any of the paths through the maze.
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