Serial Processing in Soar
Serial Processing in Soar
Although the elaboration phase of the
decision cycle is
essentially
parallel, decision cycles occur sequentially,
one after the other, with no overlap. Thus, Soar exhibits serial
behavior which arises out of the (implicit) parallelism.
This is notable because human behavior (in particular
problem solving) is serial although
the neural band in humans is massively parallel.
Thus, as a
unified theory of cognition,
Soar demonstrates that serial behavior can emerge out of
underlying parallel processing.
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