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By Dan Sperber

This quantity within the Vancouver stories in Cognitive technology sequence issues metarepresentation: the development and use of representations that symbolize different representations. Metarepresentations are ubiquitous between humans, each time we predict or speak about psychological states or linguistic acts, or theorize in regards to the brain or language. This quantity collects formerly unpublished experiences at the topic via an interdisciplinary crew of members, together with Daniel Dennett, Alvin Goldman, Keith Lehrer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.

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