I‎ nvoked to cater for the feature
‎of INTENTIONALITY or
‎ABOUTNESS (most mental
‎processes are directed at
‎something beyond themselves)
‎ ne way a system can be
O ‎ otion of REPRESENTATION: part of a
‎directed toward something is by
‎forming a REPRESENTATION of it
‎ EPRESENTATION itself is
R ‎SYMBOLIC
‎composed of a VEHICLE & a
‎CONTENT
I‎ nvoked to cater for the feature of
‎INTENTIONALITY or ABOUTNESS (most
‎mental processes are directed at
‎something beyond themselves)
1‎ .3.1.1
 ‎ ouse multiple entities and RELATIONS
‎ EPRESENTATIONS
R ‎among these entities
‎CONSUMER
N
‎THREE-PLACE RELATION, in which it is
‎LINKED TO A REFERENT & a CONSUMER
‎VEHICLE
‎ ypiclally identified with the PHYSICAL
T
‎BRAIN ACTIVITY underlying ACTIVATION
‎OF THE REPRESENTATION
‎CONTENT
‎The REFERENT AS REPRESENTED
‎ nother PART OF THE SYSTEM, typically
A
‎ANOTHER MECHANISM, that TAKES THIS
‎REPRESENTATION AS ITS INPUT
‎ OMUNCULAR INTERPRETATION OF THE
H ‎ OST COMMON ATTITUDES: BELIEF &
‎CONSUMER IN PHILOSOPHY
‎REFERENT
‎ n OBJECT in the ORGANISM'S INTERNAL
A
‎OR EXTERNAL WORLD
‎ he REPRESENTATION makes the
T
‎REFERENT AVAILABLE to the CONSUMER
‎or INTERPRETANT
‎ ONCRETE CONTENT can be virtually
C
‎ANYTHING
‎CONCEPTUAL
‎ epresentations are VERBAL-LIKE or
R
‎AMODAL
‎WORD-LIKE
‎ ave a higher level of detail than
H
‎PERCEPTUAL OR SENSORY
‎conceptual ones and are MORE VIVID, but
‎at the same time, more SCHEMATIC: they
‎ representation in which the CONTENT IS A
A ‎ epresentations are IMAGE-LIKE or
R
‎allow a form of indeterminacy that actual
‎MEANINGFUL ENTITY such as an OBJECT ‎PICTURE-LIKE, but they can in principle be ‎pictures do no
‎sound-like, smell-like, taste-like, or touch-
‎like
‎Comes in a SPECIFIC MODALITY
‎ YMBOLIC / SUB-SYMBOLIC
S ‎ nalogy with words and pictures are NOT
A
‎REPRESENTATIONS ‎LITERAL but rather STRUCTURAL
‎SUBSYMBOLIC
‎Can be organized along various dimensions
‎ he meaningful entity IS DISTRIBUTED
T
‎DEGREE OF ABSTRACTION ‎ACROSS REPRESENTATIONS that each refer
‎to a SEPARATE FEATURE OF THE ENTITY
‎SIMPLE
‎Hold a single entity
‎ASSOCIATIONS
‎ IMPLE or NOMINAL / COMPLEX
S
‎REPRESENTATIONS
‎COMPLEX ‎Unqualified relations
H ‎ tates of affairs that can be expressed in a
S
‎PROPOSITIONS
‎THAT-CLAUSE
‎ ualified relations (spatial, temporal,
Q
‎causal, etc.) ‎ ropositions are composed of elements
P
‎that can be recombined but they NEED
‎NOT be sentences in the head made up of
‎words
I‎ t is FITTING if its content fits with the
‎AFFERENT
‎ t the high end, so abstract that it slides
A ‎world, that is, if it is ACCURATE
‎into the FORMAT OF REPRESENTATIONS
‎ erception or belief, for example, has a
P
‎or REPRESENTATIONAL CODE ‎NON-DYNAMIC
‎WORLD-TO-MIND DIRECTION OF FIT
‎ oes NOT LEAD TO BEHAVIOR and its
D
‎ACTIVATION DIMINISHES OVER TIME
‎JAMES'S IDEOMOTOR HYPOTHESIS
I‎ t is FITTING if the world fits with its
‎EFFERENT ‎content, that is, if it is SATISFIED
‎The distinction between AFFERENT and ‎ hen an ACTION IS CARRIED OUT, the
W
‎ FFERENT (sensory-perceptual /
A ‎EFFERENT representations seems to ‎ACTION COMMAND GETS BOUND UP
‎ oals, for example, has a MIND-TO-WORLD
G ‎DYNAMIC
‎ an be expressed in terms of a DIFFERENT
C ‎DISOLVE WHEN THE CONTENT OF THE ‎WITH ITS SENSORY EFFECTS, resulting in
‎cognitive) / EFFERENT (motor / conative) ‎DIRECTION OF FIT
‎DIRECTION OF FIT ‎REPRESENTATION IS A BEHAVIOR ‎BIDIRECTIONAL ACTION-EFFECT LINK
‎REPRESENTATIONS
‎ ypically LEADS TO BEHAVIOR and its
T
‎ACTIVATION ACCUMULATES OVER TIME
‎even in the face of obstacles
‎ nce the links are in place, execution of
O ‎ or a behavior to occur, the mere thought
F
‎the action conjures up its sensory effects ([ ‎of the behavior in terms of its immediate
‎EMBODIED ‎R→E]) and perceiving or thinking about the ‎outcome is sufficient for it to become
‎sensory effects is sufficient to put the ‎executed
‎ epresentations of stimuli that not only
R ‎action in motion ([E→R], i.e., ideo-motor)
‎contain perceptual features but also
‎information about what can be done with ‎ n extra goal to suppress the behavior is
A
‎these stimuli (AFFORDANCES) ‎required if the person does NOT want to
‎execute the behavior
‎ YSTEMATIC / HEURISTIC INFORMATION
S ‎ entral in theories of reasoning and
C
‎PROCESSING ‎persuasion
‎MIRROR NEURONS
‎STIMULUS-DRIVEN PROCESS
‎ YCOTOMIES BASED ON PARTICULAR
D ‎ EHAVIOR is caused BY THE ACTIVATION
B
‎TYPES OF REPRESENTATIONAL CONTENT ‎OF A REPRESENTATION whose CONTENT
‎is the ASSOCIATION between the
‎ wo candidate mechanisms of BEHAVIOR
T
‎STIMULUS & a RESPONSE or a BEHAVIOR [
‎CAUSATION
‎S-R]
‎ TIMULUS-DRIVEN / GOAL-DIRECTED
S
‎GOAL-DIRECTED PROCESS
‎PROCESSES
‎ EHAVIOR is caused by a
B
‎REPRESENTATION that contains
‎ CENTRAL PRINCIPLE FOR ORGANIZING
A
‎INFORMATION ABOUT THE OUTCOME OF
‎EMOTION THEORIES
‎ONE OR MORE RESPONSE OPTIONS
‎GIVEN A CERTAIN STIMULUS [S:R-Ov]
‎ BELIEF is the COMBINATION OF A (
A
‎propositional) REPRESENTATION & an ‎MIND TO WORLD DIRECTION OF FIT
‎ ONSUMER is said to HAVE AN ATTITUDE
C ‎ATTITUDE OF BELIEF
M
‎TOWARDS THE CONTENT OF A (usually
‎DESIRE
‎propositional) REPRESENTATION ‎ DESIRE is the COMBINATION OF A (
A
‎propositional) REPRESENTATION & an ‎WORLD TO MIND DIRECTION OF FIT
‎ATTITUDE OF DESIRE