Massively representational minds are not always driven by goals, conscious or otherwise.

Behav Brain Sci

Department of Philosophy and Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0232. http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/fac_rupert.shtml.

Published: April 2014

The language of conscious and unconscious goals is rooted in a folk-taxonomy that is likely to inhibit progress in cognitive science. Severing the commitment to this taxonomy would allow Huang & Bargh (H&B) to consider a wider variety of representational forms with motivational force and to entertain the intriguing possibility that variations in the number of active-but-redundant representations account for variance in social behavior.

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