The Atomic Components of Thought

No one person could have done it alone and it could not have been done by a bunch of individuals working in isolation.

Introduction

Newell’s Dream

The challenge of science is to find the order that exists in the complexity of the world.

…modern cognitive psychology … has tended to adopt a divide-and-conquer approach to this challenge.

Maybe all science works like this. Leaf by leaf onto the tree of human knowledge.

Allen Newell raised the question of whether this strategy was really working…

Not sure I got this impression from reading UTC. Instead the pieces are valuable and sum to a valuable whole.

Or, about half and half as I recall now.

ACT-R is a world wonder. But maybe all tools seem that way until you get to know them a little better.


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