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Copycat (software)

Copycat is a model of analogy making and human cognition based on the concept of the parallel terraced scan, developed in 1988 by Douglas Hofstadter, Melanie Mitchell, and others at the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University Bloomington. The original Copycat was written in Common Lisp and is bitrotten (as it relies on…

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ACT-Rinstance ofComparison to other cognitive architecturesCopycat differs considerably in many respects from other cognitive architectures0.80text
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Psi-Theoryinstance ofComparison to other cognitive architecturesCopycat differs considerably in many respects from other cognitive architectures0.80text
or subsumption architectures.Copycat is Hofstadter's most popular modelinstance ofComparison to other cognitive architecturesCopycat differs considerably in many respects from other cognitive architectures0.80text

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