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    Challenges→The 'world as its own model' slogan cannot serve as a foundation for all or most cognition

    Some cognitive tasks are 'representation-hungry', including thoughts about non-existent entities such as unicorns and counterfactual states of affairs

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    Clark and Toribio (1994) describe some cognitive tasks as “representation-hungry.” Examples include imagining or thinking about non-existent entities (e.g., unicorns) or counterfactual states of affairs (what would happen if I sawed through the tree in this direction?). Of necessity, an organism cannot be in constant contact with non-existents. That human beings so readily and often entertain such thoughts poses a difficulty for enactivists like Chemero and Hutto and Myin who see in Brooks’s “wo

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