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question:representationalism-vs-anti-representationalism-debateRepresentationalism vs anti-representationalism debate
Cited tension in cognitive science between theories requiring mental representations and those rejecting representation as necessary.
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- Symbol grounding problemassociated_withHarnad's foundational problem: how do abstract symbols acquire meaning; relevant to representationalism debates cited in Lyon.
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- Stance that sensory experience is mediated through internal models of the world; one of the paper's guiding philosophical stances.
- Dominant interpretation of generative models as neural structures with representational content; main target of critique
- Final open question of the discussion, left genuinely unresolved.
- Final unresolved theoretical tension the paper leaves open regarding whether representation is foundational or founded on autonomy.
- Open methodological question acknowledged as limitation
- The evolution of an agent's latent representations over the course of training, shown to align with reward improvement when causal emergence is high.
- The proposed domain-general property indexed by deception features that governs both factual accuracy and experiential self-report
- Interpretation of weaker PCA separation and lower ASR in smaller models