Viera, Gerardo (2021) Representation without Informative Signalling. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1464-3537
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Various writers have attempted to use the sender-receiver formalism to account for the representational capacities of biological systems. This paper has two goals. First, I argue that the sender-receiver approach to representation cannot be complete. The mammalian circadian system represents the time of day, yet it does not control circadian behaviours by producing signals with time of day content. Informative signalling need not be the basis of our most basic representational capacities. Second, I argue that representational capacities are primarily about control, and only when specific conditions obtain does this control require informative signalling.
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| Keywords: | Mental Representation, Signaling, Time, Cognitive Science | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations |
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| Depositing User: | Gerardo Viera | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2022 14:55 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2022 14:55 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 21257 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | https://doi.org/10.1086/718205 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations |
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| Date: | 12 November 2021 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1464-3537 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21257 |
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