INFORMATION, PHYSICS AND THE REPRESENTING MIND.

A primary function of mind is to form and manipulate representations to identify and choose survival-enhancing behaviors. Representations are themselves physical systems that can be manipulated to reason about, predict, or plan actions involving the objects they designate. The field of knowledge rep...

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Published in:	Cosmos & History Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 131 - 140
Main Author:	Laskey, Kathryn Blackmond
Format:	Article
Published:	Ashton & Rafferty 2014
Subjects:	Knowledge representation (Information theory) Computational physics Digital computer simulation Metaphor Cognition Algorithms
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost