There are different attempts to solve the symbol grounding problem which will be discussed. An important paradigm in cognitive psychology has been the computational approach.
Computation involves the manipulation of a symbol system.
There were a number of reasons why the symbolic view of mind appeared to be persuasive. Another example will help to demonstrate this problem. The symbols would not be grounded. This time the symbols would not be grounded either and it is an analogous to the difficulty faced by purely symbolic models of mind. This is the symbol grounding problem.