4.1. The internal approach

It is not clear that the contextual mechanism that an individual uses to remember and recognise a situation will be best represented by symbolic inference. For it may be that one such `context' isn't clearly separable from another. Deciding which context is relevant may be more of a process of recognition than an inferential process. If this is the case the recognition might be better modelled by something like a neural network than using a logic-based system. It may be that there isn't sufficient continuity for the results of the recognition process to be meaningfully ascribed separate identities. But even if this is the case, it does not mean that it is useful for us to analyse and model these mechanisms using computational, symbolic or other reified terms.