TThe problem of the homunculus (that little WO/man in the BRAINHE

 The problem of the homunculus (that little WO/man in the BRAIN is the problem of leaving undischarged homunculi (“little men” or their equivalents) in one’s explanantia, and it persists as we consider an elaboration on our initial introspective report. 

For example, one might well report forming a mental image of A map, and then scanning around the various features of the map, zooming in on them to discern more clearly what they are to see if any of them is the sought-after cabin. 

To take this introspective report seriously as a guide to the underlying psychological mechanisms would be to posit, minimally, an imager (to form the initial image), a scanner (to guide your mind’s eye around the image), and a zoomer (to adjust the relative sizes of the features on the map). But here again we face the problem of the homunculus,    THE dogma of the Ghost in the Machine”