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How much of the mind is modular? Human consciousness constantly occupied with multiple variety of information processing tasks. Information from different sensors (light, sounds, taste and etc.) is processed, stored and analysed. No doubt this process is a complex system. To obtain better understanding of complex processes taking place in human mind, psychologists came up with different theories of evaluating structure of cognitive processes. Two influential theoretical positions have influenced cognitive science of 20th century. First one is that the mind is a general-purpose problem solver, was developed by Newell, Simon and Piaget. Second position is that mind is made up of special-purpose modules. People behind second position are Chomsky, Fodor and Gardner. The concept of modular organisation is not new tendency and it dates back to Kant and to Gall's faculty theory. But it was the publication of Fodor's Modularity of Mind in 1983 that set the...

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