Rationality as an Issue in Cognitive Architectures
The rationality of an architecture is
a measure of consistency.
That is, are the actions it performs always consistent with all its
knowledge and goals? Generally, if an agent would perform two
different actions with the same knowledge in two identical
(environmental)
situations, it is not said to be fully rational. The issues concerning
rationality in
cognitive architectures are
discussed more completely as the
maximum rationality hypothesis.
Additionally, because of
limited resources,
full rationality may always be possible even when an agent as the
general capability to act so. This is known as
bounded rationality.
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