Alude al compromiso teórico central estándar de filósofos, neurocientistas y psicólogos cognitivos en relación a las condiciones necesarias para la operación de la mente.
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El problema es que el uso del concepto no es homogéneo entre científicos de estas distintas disciplinas, lo cual podría plantear un problema para la producción del conocimiento:
“If, as our results suggest, there is indeed widespread uncertainty in applications of the concept of representation, then such a state of affairs might not be innocuous. They could breed fruitless debates about whether or not some brain part that responds to some stimulus represents it; barring a clearer concept of representation, such debates cannot be resolved. For instance, in the embodied cognition literature, cognitive neuroscientists have provided ample fMRI evidence that at least sometimes (e.g., Kiefer and Pulvermüller, 2012), motor and perceptual areas of the brain are activated when participants retrieve and use concepts, but critics have responded that those activations are incidental: They are not the conceptual representations themselves (e.g., Mahon and Caramazza, 2008). Without greater precision about what it means for a brain pattern to be a representation and some operationalization of the concept of representation, this controversy is unlikely to be resolved.” (p.11)