A representation is a formal system for making explicit cer… - David Marr

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A representation is a formal system for making explicit certain entities or types of information, together with a specification of how the system does this. And I shall call the result of using a representation to describe a given entity a description of the entity in that representation.

David Marr

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David Courtnay Marr (19 January 1945 – 17 November 1980) was a British neuroscientist and psychologist, known for integrating results from psychology, artificial intelligence, and neurophysiology into new models of visual processing.

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