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One of the problems that's beset philosophers and cognitive scientists for the last 30, 40 years is how on earth the brain represents information.An eternally appealing idea is something like a language of thought that there's brain writing or mentalese and we write -- the brain writes sentences in mentalese that store the beliefsso that when you learn that giraffes are mammals, there's someplace in your brain where the word -- the mental word giraffe and the word mammal are tied together with a "is a" or