The most effective way to approach the problem of consciousness would be to use the descriptions of psychologists and cognitive scientists and attempt to map different aspects of their models onto what is known about the neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of the brain. Naturally we have attempted to do this but have not found it as useful as one might hope, although such models do point to the importance of attention and short-term memory and suggest that consciousness should have easy access to the higher, planning levels of the motor system. A major handicap is the pernicious influence of the paradigm of the von Neumann digital computer.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The most effective way to approach the problem of consciousness would be to use the descriptions of psychologists and cognitive scientists and attempt to map different aspects of their models onto what is known about the neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of the brain. Naturally we have attempted to do this but have not found it as useful as one might hope, although such models do point to the importance of attention and short-term memory and suggest that consciousness should have easy access to the higher, planning levels of the motor system. A major handicap is the pernicious influence of the paradigm of the von Neumann digital computer." in the context of "Francis Crick and Christof Koch, "Towards a neurobiological theory of consciousness." In Seminars in the Neurosciences, vol. 2, pp. 263–275. Saunders Scientific Publications, 1990." to mean that wisdom is timeless.