document: Selective representing and world-making We discuss the thesis of selective representing-the idea that the contents of the mental representations had by organisms are highly constrained by the biological niches within which the organisms evolved . While such a thesis has been defended by several authors elsewhere , our primary concern here is to take up the issue of the compatibility of selective representing and realism . We hope to show three things . First , that the notion of selective representing is fully consistent with the realist idea of a mind-independent world . Second , that not only are these two consistent , but that the latter -LRB- the realist conception of a mind-independent world -RRB- provides the most powerful perspective from which to motivate and understand the differing perceptual and cognitive profiles themselves . Third , that the -LRB- genuine and important -RRB- sense in which organism and environment may together constitute an integrated system of scientific interest poses no additional threat to the realist conception
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extractive_keyphrases: selective representing mental representations organisms realism cognitive profiles
abstractive_keyphrases: world-making mind-independent world