Maley, Corey J. (2021) The Physicality of Representation. [Preprint]
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Representation is typically taken to be importantly separate from its physical implementation. This is exemplified in Marr's three-level framework, widely cited and often adopted in neuroscience. However, the separation between representation and physical implementation is not a necessary feature of information-processing systems. In particular, when it comes to analog computational systems, Marr's representational/algorithmic level and implementational level collapse into a single level. Insofar as analog computation is a better way of understanding neural computation than other notions, Marr's three-level framework must then be amended into a two-level framework. However, far from being a problem or limitation, this sheds lights on how to understand physical media as being representational, but without a separate, medium-independent representational level.
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Keywords: | representation; levels; Marr; computation; implementation | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Computation/Information > Classical Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Computation Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations |
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Depositing User: | Dr. Corey Maley | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2021 12:24 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 06 Oct 2021 12:24 | ||||||
Item ID: | 19646 | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Computation/Information > Classical Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Computation Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations |
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Date: | 4 October 2021 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19646 |
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