The essential connection between representation and learningMalmgren, Helge (2006) The essential connection between representation and learning. In: 10th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 23-26 June 2006, Oxford, England. Full text available as:
Alternative URL: http://www.phil.gu.se/posters/hmoxford.pdf AbstractThe basic system design that makes it possible for mental representations to substitute for perceptions also explains why these representations so easily adapt to environmental constraints – i.e., why they are so often successful substitutes. The present poster is an attempt to spell out and argue for this thesis, using an extension of an argument formulated by W.R. Ashby. Comments/DiscussionThe feedback mechanism which according to the model makes the output of the brain's perceptual and imaginative mechanisms available to the same mechanisms again, and which is the very foundation of the postulated self-organising learning process, may possibly be identified with perceptual and imaginative consciousness.
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