There is one point in your argument that I’m not sure I understand.
How do you distinguish between an internal state that actually represents something and a state within a complex dynamic system whose resulting behavior can merely be described by an outside observer as if the system represented something?
A simple example would be ants. An ant that finds a food source can leave a chemical trail that allows other ants to find it. From the outside, we could describe this as the ant remembering the food source, c... (read more)
Thank you very much for the interesting article.
There is one point in your argument that I’m not sure I understand.
How do you distinguish between an internal state that actually represents something and a state within a complex dynamic system whose resulting behavior can merely be described by an outside observer as if the system represented something?
A simple example would be ants. An ant that finds a food source can leave a chemical trail that allows other ants to find it. From the outside, we could describe this as the ant remembering the food source, c... (read more)