Adaptive representation

Adaptive representation

Adaptive representation is an extension by Francis Heylighen to Kant's theory of knowledge.

According to Kant, perception passes by the filters of the mind who observes the phenomena. In this line, there exists in the human mind invariant and a-priori principles of experience. As an example, one may have imprinted in the brain a Cartesian representation of space, a notion of time, color separation and others. This may be called "static representation".

Heylighen has proposed a revision of these Kantian ideas, in which these principles are not supposed to be invariant and necessary a priori; instead alternative principles exist for the organization of experience in adaptive representations. This opens a path for new investigations in the philosophy of mind and human cognition.

References

*Heylighen, Francis (1990). "Representation and Change: A Metarepresentational Framework for the Foundations of Physical and Cognitive Science". Communication and Cognition, Ghent, Belgium.

External links

* [http://pcp.vub.ac.be/books/Rep&Change.pdf Web edition] of "Representation and Change" (1999).


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