ABSTRACT
One of the difficulties in writing this book has been to articulate the basic functions of the system without addressing what others have said about issues, including those that potentially have considerable impact on the significance and orientation of the analysis. This chapter addresses some of these, but not to the degree the issues may deserve. There are many relationships between phenomena that we have discussed and explanations of perception, memory, neurology, brain and learning theories, models of cognition, and various classification schemes. On the topic of attention alone, there are many experimental outcomes that have led to different models. Sheer book length prevents serious excursions into the various issues that possibly deserve discussion. This chapter attempts to redress only some of the more central issues related to the analysis.
