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	Definition of Representation by Marr "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... This definition of a representation is quite general. For example, a representation for shape would be a formal scheme for describing some aspects of shape, together with rules that specify how the scheme is applied to any particular shape... To say that something is a formal scheme means only that it is a set of symbols with rules for putting them together --- no more and no less... Thus, there is a trade-off; any particular representation makes certain information explicit at the expense of information that is pushed into the background and may be quite hard to recover." D. Marr, Vision, San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1982. pp. 20-21. The Goal of Cubism by Picasso "[Cubist painters paint] not what you see, but what you know is there." Picasso. (Ref. TBA) A Link Between Passion and the Attention Mechanism "The reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size." Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief. As referenced in the movie Adaptation.