Against Tulving's Residues: Why representations need to be physical entities

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Cider and beer residue on the side of a glass. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/livenow/2728832048/

At the heart of cognitive science is the notion of a representation: How the mind represents the world during perception and how we relate to these representations when we think.

Representations are the objects of thought, the building blocks of mental experience. Representations have been considered imagist

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