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A solution must exclude inappropriately proximal items, as well as include appropriately distal items.
According to them, it is by hearing the immediate, proximal items that we hear some distal events or objects.
These more proximal items in the causal chain carry information about C to the system and through the system to the R.
The system was selected for its disposition to respond to the proximal items because by that means it responded to the more distal items, but the system was not selected for responding to the more distal item because by that means it responded to the more proximal items.
(It does not respond to the more proximal items by means of its responding to the more distal items; that is not how the means-end analysis pans out).
An informational theory of content must therefore explain how mental representations represent distal features of the world, as opposed to the more proximal items that carry information about those distal features to the representations that represent them.
Food is included in the content of the frog's perceptual representation, on Millikan's theory, but the issue is whether the proximal items that carry information about the food to the frog are excluded.
The first requirement on its own does not determine suitably distal content because there is a causal chain leading from C to R and, if the system had been selected for responding to Cs by producing Rs, it must also have been selected for responding to the proximal items in the causal chain (such as the light reflected from Cs toward the retina of the eye, in the case of visual perception).
relaxed proximal point algorithm.
proximal point algorithm.
contraction-proximal point algorithm.
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