About the representational nature of the mind. The representational mind

According to cognitive science, thinking is understood as structures of mental representations on which computational processes operate. In the representational-computational model of the mind, we resort to a complex triadic analogy that links mind, brain and computers. Most of these models are symbolic, although there are also non-symbolic representational models (connectionism) and non-representational cognitive models of the mind. The analysis of the various cognitive approaches on the representations and the mind processes within the framework of the cognitive sciences and of their advantages and limitations reveals that these approaches do not have to mutually exclusive and that, in many of the cases, they complement each other. However, the lack of a unified theory regarding this matter has also been stated. After considering the weak points of both the classic computational symbolic model and the connectionism, acknowledging the significant progresses made by both in the study of the mind, we conclude that there is still no computational model with representational capacity to cover the whole human thinking.