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Mental representation: What language is brainese?

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So we are not faced with a reductio. Representationalism is still alive. But it is not home and dry. For my defense has presupposed what I haven't got: a theory of organism-environment interactions that fixes the semantics of the inner code.

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Sterelny, K. Mental representation: What language is brainese?. Philos Stud 43, 365–382 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00372373

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