7 papers
Zenons Demon and the Denial of Domain-Generality for Transformer-Based Computational Models of Human Behavior
Mark Orr, Edward A. Cranford, Ken Ford +6
Transformer-based models of human behavior (e.g., the Centaur model by Binz, et al., 2025) posit to be domain general computational models of human behavior. The claim of domain-ge…
Rapid Prototyping of Event-Driven Contextual Memory in the ACT-Up Cognitive Architecture
Robert Thomson, Christian Lebiere
The present paper describes an implementation of contextual memory and a basic event-handler for the ACT-Up cognitive architecture which maintains its scalability and appropriatene…
Not Even Wrong: On the Limits of Prediction as Explanation in Cognitive Science
Mark Orr, Drew Cranford, Ken Ford +6
We offer a comment on the Centaur (Binz et al., 2025) transformer-based model of human behavior. In particular, Centaur was cast as a path towards unified theories of cognition. We…
Mapping Neural Theories of Consciousness onto the Common Model of Cognition
Paul S. Rosenbloom, John E. Laird, Christian Lebiere +1
A beginning is made at mapping four neural theories of consciousness onto the Common Model of Cognition. This highlights how the four jointly depend on recurrent local modules plus…
A Proposal to Extend the Common Model of Cognition with Metacognition
John Laird, Christian Lebiere, Paul Rosenbloom +1
The Common Model of Cognition (CMC) provides an abstract characterization of the structure and processing required by a cognitive architecture for human-like minds. We propose a un…
A Proposal for Extending the Common Model of Cognition to Emotion
Paul S. Rosenbloom, John E. Laird, Christian Lebiere +3
Cognition and emotion must be partnered in any complete model of a humanlike mind. This article proposes an extension to the Common Model of Cognition -- a developing consensus con…