This lines up fairly well with how I’ve seen psychology people geek out over ACT-R. That is: I had a psychology professor who was enamored with the ability to line up programming stuff with neuroanatomy. (She didn’t use it in class or anything, she just talked about it like it was the most mind blowing stuff she ever saw as a research psychologist, since normally you just get these isolated little theories about specific things.)
And, yeah, important to view it as a programming language which can model a bunch of stuff, but requires fairly extensive user input to do so. One way I’ve seen this framed is that ACT-R lacks domain knowledge (since it is not in fact an adult human), so you can think of the programming as mostly being about hypothesizing what domain knowledge people invoke to solve a task.
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This lines up fairly well with how I’ve seen psychology people geek out over ACT-R. That is: I had a psychology professor who was enamored with the ability to line up programming stuff with neuroanatomy. (She didn’t use it in class or anything, she just talked about it like it was the most mind blowing stuff she ever saw as a research psychologist, since normally you just get these isolated little theories about specific things.)
And, yeah, important to view it as a programming language which can model a bunch of stuff, but requires fairly extensive user input to do so. One way I’ve seen this framed is that ACT-R lacks domain knowledge (since it is not in fact an adult human), so you can think of the programming as mostly being about hypothesizing what domain knowledge people invoke to solve a task.
The first of your two images looks broken in my browser.