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.
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 @drossbucket @garybasin )
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Lots of very smart people spent 40 years (1950-1990) trying to find a plausible mechanistic account of representation and failed. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible, but it would require some radically new approach.
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The first 25 clever ideas any smart person comes up with, on their own, will all have well-understood failure modes. To avoid reinventing pentagonal wheels, I would suggest reading the history and understanding clearly why each of those didn’t work.
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