Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2002 - Volume 25, Issue 03  


Short Communication

What does “isomorphism between conscious representations and the structure of the world” mean?

Riccardo Manzotti a1 and Giulio Sandini a1
a1 LIRA-Lab, DIST, University of Genoa, Genova 16145, Italy manzotti@dist.unige.it sandini@dist.unige.it http://manzotti.lira.dist.unige.it http://www.lira.dist.unige.it

Abstract

Perruchet & Vinter's provocative article challenges a series of interesting issues, yet the concept of isomorphism is troublesome for a series of reasons: (1) isomorphism entails some sort of dualism; (2) isomorphism does not entail that a piece of the world is a representation; and (3) it is extremely difficult to provide an explanation about the nature of the relation of isomorphism.