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Summary of Lecture


Multiple meanings, hidden dynamical variables and complex (causal) processes characterize mental representation.

By contrast, the prevailing approach to mental representation and to knowledge is “one-dimensional” in the sense that one
single thread of meaning and one single set of variables are assumed. This ends up in a simple system, in the sense
discussed here.

(1) Knowledge and mental cotent are "visual",
(2) or, more precisely, causal;
(3) causality means complexity of a given kind that can be studied by studying systems with "depth",
(4) these notions have important consequences on meaning, the dynamics of representation, and reasoning etc.



To be continued...


END OF LECTURE ONE