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What does “isomorphism between conscious representations and the structure of the world” mean?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2003

Riccardo Manzotti  and
Giulio Sandini
Riccardo Manzotti
Affiliation:
LIRA-Lab, DIST, University of Genoa, Genova 16145, [email protected]@dist.unige.it http://manzotti.lira.dist.unige.it http://www.lira.dist.unige.it
Giulio Sandini
Affiliation:
LIRA-Lab, DIST, University of Genoa, Genova 16145, [email protected]@dist.unige.it http://manzotti.lira.dist.unige.it http://www.lira.dist.unige.it
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Abstract

Perruchet & Vinter's provocative article challenges a series of interesting issues, yet the concept of isomorphism is troublesome for a series of reasons: (1) isomorphism entails some sort of dualism; (2) isomorphism does not entail that a piece of the world is a representation; and (3) it is extremely difficult to provide an explanation about the nature of the relation of isomorphism.

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Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , June 2002 , pp. 346 - 347
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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