ABSTRACT
It is almost a commonplace among philosophers and cognitive scientists that cognition is in some sense a form of information-processing (although some philosophers, particularly those adopting what I have termed the picture of the autonomous mind, make a sharp distinction between personal-level thought and the subpersonal information-processing that makes it possible). Unsurprisingly, however, there is no agreement on how information is represented in the mind/brain, or on how those representations are processed (what is often called the architecture of cognition). Each of the five subsections that follow deals with a different dimension of the general problem of how best to understand representation and cognitive architecture.
