Question

From what I read, SOAR is a cognitive architecture that essentially has the goal of of creating a computational system that has the same cognitive abilities as humans. So, it seems like the goal of this architecture is to do what neural nets do but in a more biologically relevant way. Is this the right way of thinking about these? Also, have any SOAR models been physically created, or is it just a theoretical model?

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Soar is a computational theory of human cognition that takes the form of a general cognitive architecture. Soar is just a theoritical method.

soar is characterized by a set of specific theoretical commitments shaped primarily by attempting to satisfy the functional requirements for supporting human-level intelligence.The five major technical ideas underlying soar are: (a) the physical symbol system hypothesis; (b) cognitive architectures; (c) production systems; (d) problem spaces and least commitment control structures; and (e) continuous, impasse-driven learning. Soar's focus on functionality and these five specific theoretical commitments are what make it both distinctive and controversial in cognitive psychology.

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