A represents B, if this substitution were the template for representation then representation could not 'work'. To clear this dead end it must be at least ternary - and at most - A represents B for C. This is already a story. Note that by varying A, B or C the story is transformed in various ways, and further transformations arise from permuting the terms. Essentially, however, the story paradigm is a way to understand an idealist or mind-only theory, since consciousness is what makes a random collection of three units into a story, and a story is the only indicator of consciousness to itself. Essential to this as well is that stories always have an inside and an outside. Consciousness need not be limited to stories in the atomic form suggested, but that is another story.