Soar may also be viewed as having a certain meta-awareness (or reflectiveness) due to the action of impasses. These impasses allow Soar to look at the entire context. When impasses do not arise, activity proceeds without this reflectiveness. Since this meta-awareness derives from the architecture, it occurs automatically (on the recognition of a lack of knowledge) and not deliberately.
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