The past decade has been Hellenistic rather than Hellenic, a Silver rather than a Golden Age. But if it has not been a midday, it has been no twilight either.

Barsalou's theory rightly emphasizes the perceptual basis of cognition. However, the perceptual symbols that he proposes seem ill suited to carry the representational burden entailed by the architecture in which they function, given that Barsalou accepts the requirement for productivity. A more radical proposal is needed in which symbols are largely external to the cognizer and linked to internal states via perception.