#mental representation

[bluedillylee]

mental/spiritual representation

guess who’s been skewered twice 

[newsdock]

Birdbrains? Hardly: Baby Chicks Know How to Count

Scientists found that chicks seem to count upwards moving from left to right — they put smaller numbers on the left and larger numbers on the right, the same mental representation of the number line that humans use. "Our results suggest a rethinking of the relationship between numerical abilities and verbal language, providing further evidence that language and culture are not necessary for the development of a mathematical cognition," said study lead author Rosa Rugani, a psychologist at the University of Padova in Italy. http://dlvr.it/8K094G

[rookieroulette]

Feel like the first thing I'm going to do when I get back to university is go and raid the library. Because public libraries...urgh.

I want something on mental representation...

...something on logic and reasoning...

...Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct...

...something by Joseph LeDoux...

...and potentially lots more stuff once I actually go in.

Sometimes, books just tap me on the shoulder while I'm looking for something else and say "Excuse me, but would you consider bringing me to your house for an adventure, please?"

[eidetisch]

In a significant point of agreement with Husserl, and Heidegger as well, Searle rejects the idea that the object of an intentional state is a mental representation.  Since what is most revolutionary about the phenomenological theory of intentionality is precisely its abandonment of all traces of a mental representation that is supposed to mediate between consciousness and our knowledge of the external world, Searle, on this point, is more phenomenologically relevant than he is perhaps willing to admit.  Consider, for example, the following observation by Searle on the nature of the intentional object, take from his work Intentionality (p. 16):  “To call something an Intentional object is just to say that is what some Intentional state is about.  Thus, for example, if Bill admires President Clinton, then the Intentional object of his admiration is President Carter, the actual man and not some shadowy intermediate entity between Bill and the man.”

[lumfcva-blog]

Relatedness, Self-Definition and Mental Representation

Relatedness, Self-Definition and Mental Representation Over the course of a long and distinguished career, psychologist and psychoanalyst Sidney J. Blatt has proposed an integrative theoretical model of personality development, psychopathology, and therapeutic change. This book presents chapters by Dr. Blatt's many colleagues and students that explore questions of relatedness, self-definition, and mental representation. It is a unique contribution to the field of clinical psychology and psychoanalysis.

[fuckyeahproust-blog]

To each one of us, clear ideas are those which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

Marcel Proust