Behavioral and Brain Sciences



Short Communication

If emulation is representation, does detail matter?


Lynn Andrea Stein a1
a1 Computers and Cognition Laboratory, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA 02492-1245 las@olin.edu http://faculty.olin.edu/~las

Abstract

Grush describes a variety of different systems that illustrate his vision of representation through emulation. These individual data points are not necessarily sufficient to determine what level of detail is required for a representation to count as emulation. By examining one of his examples closely, this commentary suggest that salience of the information supplied is a critical dimension.