Metacat: A Self-Watching Cognitive Architecture for Analogy-Making

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  • James B. Marshall
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This paper describes Metacat, an extension of the Copycat analogy-making program. Metacat is able to monitor its own processing, allowing it to recognize, remember, and recall patterns that occur in its “train of thought” as it makes analogies. This gives the program a high degree of flexibility and self-control. The architecture of the program is described, along with a sample run illustrating the

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تاریخ انتشار 1999