Cognitive problems dealing with

Is it the condition itself Is it the medication I ve been trying cognitive therapy, but it s hard to know how to deal with it when you don t have the facts and you don t know where the problem lies, (male professor, aged 59)... 

Barring pathological cases (which I have not discussed here) we ought not to take the notion of several selves very literally. In general, we are dealing with exactly one person - neither more nor less. That person may have some cognitive coordination problems, and some motivational conflicts, but it is his job to sort them out. They do not... 

Ample evidence in the literature and reviewed in this volume indicates that people use spatial representations to deal with problems in other cognitive domains. This section discusses the possibility that animals also might use spatial schemas to deal with problems in other cognitive domains. The fundamental nature of spatial representations for the survival of organisms suggests that such representations might be found in both humans and nonhumans. Two speculative examples will be discussed here. 

Given the unquestionable importance of spatial representation to animals, it is possible that they use such representations to deal with problems in other cognitive domains. Some evidence in support of the idea that animals might use linear spatial models to keep track of time and number and to perform transitive inference was discussed, but these possibilities remain highly speculative. 

As far as I can tell, there is only one theory of experience that provides a satisfactory way of dealing with this problem - representationalism. Rep-resentationalism maintains that our awareness of the characteristics we call qualia essentially involves representations and that the representations in question are different in a variety of respects from the representations that are involved in other forms of cognition. Because of the distinctive features of these representations, it maintains, the properties they represent seem to us to have special features, such as intrinsicness and simplicity, and seem to us to have individual natures that are not captured by scientific accounts of experience. Despite our impressions to the contrary, representationalism asserts, our awareness of qualia is governed by an appearance/reality... 

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