What we call a representation is not a correspondence given an external state of affairs, but a consistency with a system's own ongoing maintenance of identity.

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• Whether representation can serve as a foundational principle, or whether it is itself founded on the autonomous organization that makes representation possible at all.question0.799
  Final open question of the discussion, left genuinely unresolved.
• Representation may be a fundamental principle of living systems, but it is difficult to generalize formally because it appears to vanish at the molecular level.claim0.794
  Central open theoretical tension raised in the discussion.
• Emotion refers to a state concept, so stateful representations in general may be more persistent across tokens.claim0.785
  Interpretive hypothesis offered to explain why emotion features are more persistent
• For some purposes, it will be convenient to settle for specifications in terms of fulfilling internal commitments, and sometimes the public character of promises will have to be taken into account in the specifications.claim0.779
  Trade-off between internal and public obligations.
• what is the precise characterization of the perceptual representational format in which information exists as a specific, sustained, globally constitutive structure?question0.772
  Open theoretical problem CIMC acknowledges: precisely characterizing the representational format of perception
• We also propose to handle external obligations in an abstract way.claim0.770
  Proposal for type 1/type 2 obligations.
• Even if a case successfully meets all three criteria, this does not necessarily indicate that the corresponding sequence of representations is conscious. Rather, it suggests the observation of a potential 'consciousness' phenomenon within these representations — nothing more.quote0.766
  Load-bearing epistemic caution the author places on the entire analytical framework.
• There is a bidirectional relationship between the geometry of representation and behavior across tasks and modalities.claim0.764
  Author’s interpretive claim that the shared geometry is general and robust.