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Distal similarity, shape referents, subjective world, and redundancy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Hannes Eisler
Hannes Eisler
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Swedenhe@psychology.su.se www.psychology.su.se
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Abstract

The concept of distal similarity that plays a crucial role in Edelman's theory of representation is called into question in this commentary on theoretical as well as empirical grounds. A possible confusion between shape and (knowledge of) its referent, the problem of the subjective world, redundancy, and large individual differences in subjective space encountered in contrived universes are discussed.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , August 1998 , pp. 470
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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