I did this as a follow-up to my second recitation (60 ideas from "Memory as a Computational Resource" from September 2022) and because I was interested in Schulz's more recent work on building a unified model of human cognition, which was hinted at and then published last month as "Centaur." I have to admit ​​that I have been seduced by the possibility of a unified theory of cognition: Are there a common set of principles governing the phenomena associated with mnemonics in humans, single cell learning, and all of the rest within the tree of life?​ After a rabbit hole into Newell's work, I spent several days exploring Botvinick's early 2000's papers.​​​​​​

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- (Newell, 1992): "Unified theories of cognition are the only way to bring this wonderful increasing fund of knowledge under intellectual control."

- "Cognitive control is described as the processes behind the ability to adapt to task-specific demands."​​​​​​​​​​