# Does machine learning produce mental representations?

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2018-05-28-does-machine-learning-produce-mental-representations

The piece argues that machine-learning systems represent problem spaces without possessing the flexible, embodied, and metacognitive mental representations used by humans.

Blog post · Metaphor Hacker · 28 May 2018

## Where it lives

- [Read it on Metaphor Hacker (metaphorhacker.net)](https://metaphorhacker.net/2018/05/does-machine-learning-produce-mental-representations/)

## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 28 May 2018
- Published in: Metaphor Hacker
- Language: English

Topics: artificial-intelligence, cognition, mental-models, machine-learning.

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