Ability to Add New Knowledge as an Issue in Cognitive Architectures

This capability of an architecture is strictly concerned with the addition of knowledge into the system by outside means (such as direct programming by a designer or user). Thus this is a separate issue from the ability to learn which is more of an autonomous action, or at least occurs within the agent itself. In considering the ability to add new knowledge, one may ask if the task is very easy (e.g., adding new data to a store of knowledge) or very difficult (requiring fundamental changes to the architecture to incorporate the new knowledge). In most cases, the answer to this question dependent on both the architecture itself and the type of knowledge which is to be incorporated.

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