Serial Behavior in the Midst of Parallelism in Soar

Serial Processing in the Midst of Parallelism 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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