https://drossbucket.wordpress.com/2019/10/24/the-middle-distance/ … Interesting discussion on what we mean when we say one thing "represents" another, and how you could detect the presence of "representation" empirically
The definition here seems to be "B is a representation of A if A has a causal relationship with B, but a "laggy" one, so that B doesn't always change in tandem with A"
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That seems more general than what I would have picked, which would have more of a categorical flavor ("There's a map between A and B such that the parts of A map to parts of B, and the relationships between parts of A also map to the relationships between parts of B")
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(well, both more and less general; the identity isomorphism fits my definition fine but isn't laggy, and indeed a "map" that's just the territory isn't much of a map
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