This demonstrates quite nicely the problem with the magical notion of an “internal representation.” (Actually, there’s two magical notions, since both “internal” and “representation” are separately magical.) You could easily replace “internal representation” with “soul” in this essay and you’d get back the orthodox thinking about humans and animals of the last two thousand years. Given that there is both no evidence nor any chance of evidence either for “internal representations” or “souls” and neither is well-defined (or defined at all), you might as well go ahead and make the substitution. This entire essay is pure mysticism.
This demonstrates quite nicely the problem with the magical notion of an “internal representation.” (Actually, there’s two magical notions, since both “internal” and “representation” are separately magical.) You could easily replace “internal representation” with “soul” in this essay and you’d get back the orthodox thinking about humans and animals of the last two thousand years. Given that there is both no evidence nor any chance of evidence either for “internal representations” or “souls” and neither is well-defined (or defined at all), you might as well go ahead and make the substitution. This entire essay is pure mysticism.