SINBAD Neurosemantics: A Theory of Mental Representation

Author: Ryder D.

Source: Mind & Language, Volume 19, Number 2, April 2004 , pp. 211-240(30)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

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Abstract:

: I present an account of mental representation based upon the ‘SINBAD’ theory of the cerebral cortex. If the SINBAD theory is correct, then networks of pyramidal cells in the cerebral cortex are appropriately described as representing, or more specifically, as modelling the world. I propose that SINBAD representation reveals the nature of the kind of mental representation found in human and animal minds, since the cortex is heavily implicated in these kinds of minds. Finally, I show how SINBAD neurosemantics can provide accounts of misrepresentation, equivocal representation, twin cases, and Frege cases.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2004.00255.x

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