I disagree with this argument. I think some portion of our brain is devoted to “modeling,” and the things being modeled include other parts of our brain; other

I disagree with this argument. I think some portion of our brain is devoted to “modeling,” and the things being modeled include other parts of our brain; other parts of our body; phenomena that include certain parts of the brain and non-brain body parts (eg emotions); other times and places; other people; our environment; and so on and so forth. Certain modes of thinking, like abstract thought and reasoning, can only draw on these models, so in that limited scope, the only a available data is the models — which there are more of than we could ever attend to exhaustively. In other states of mind, there is all kinds of other data.