Cognition without representation?
In A. Reigler & Markus F. Peschl (eds.), Understanding Representation. Plenum Press (1999)
| Abstract | A principled understanding of representations requires that they have objective, systematic content. It is claimed that there is an interesting form of nonconceptual, intentionality which is processed by non-systematic connectionist networks and has its correctness conditions provided by a modest biosemantics; but this type of content is not properly representational. Finally, I consider the consequences that such a verdict has on eliminativist views that look to connectionism as a means of radically reconceiving our understanding of cognition. | |||||||||
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