Neural Representation (original) (raw)

Oxford University Press eBooks, 2020

Abstract

Neural representations are models of the organism and environment built by the nervous system. This chapter provides an account of representational role and content for both indicative and imperative representations. It also argues that, contrary to a mainstream assumption, representations are not merely theoretical posits. Instead, neural representations are observable and are routinely observed and manipulated by experimental neuroscientists in their laboratories. If a type of entity is observable or manipulable, then it exists. Therefore, neural representations are as real as neurons, action potentials, or any other experimentally established entities in our ontology.

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