For Readers New to Cognitive Architectures and AI

For readers unfamiliar with cognitive architectures and artificial intelligence (AI) in general, a good place to begin examining the document(*) is the theory section. This area of the document presents a number of different theories and ideas from AI and cognitive science independent of the cognitive architectures themselves. Although the information there is not organized in a coherent argument, the information does present some motivating factors for the study of cognitive architectures, especially as an experimental endeavor.

Since the reader may not be overly interested in the contextual links(*) which are used to relate different facets of architectures, architectures may be read linearly using the "NEXT" labels at the bottom of architecture nodes(*). In general, there will be a non-contextual link(*) at the bottom of each node in a document which leads to a definition of that term. For instance, if you were reading the frame-like representations node in the Theo architecture, there is a link there with the label "Go to a discussion of this property for multiple architectures" which would take the reader to a node discussing the concept of frames, including both a definition of frames and their relationship to cognitive architectures. Thus defintions of terms specific to cognitive architectures (and AI) may be readily accessed and when a definition is not needed, reading may continue uninterrupted by the intrusion of the definition.

*: The terms node, link, document, contextual, and non-contextual are defined in a separate node.

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