| III | MODELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
CHASING THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE
The general strategy in cognitive modeling is to open up the big “black box” representing the organism (or its brain) and to postulate a complex system of many smaller boxes in order to depict the causal relationships prevailing between distinct mental or information-processing functions. For example, models of human memory systems have been based on such functional distinctions: memory has been divided into procedural, semantic, episodic, and working memory. The last has been further subdivided into “the phonological loop,” “the visuo-spatial sketchpad,” and “the central executive” (Baddeley, 1986). Jerry Fodor’s (1983) ideas on the modularity ...
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