Representations and mental states

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Professor Fred Dretske, who currently lectures at Duke University,
has written extensively on representations, beliefs and agency in animals.
Photo courtesy of Stanford University.

What is a representation?
Why there can be no representation without the possibility of mis-representation
Do Dretskean representations warrant the ascription of mental states to animals?