A Qualitative Comparative Evaluation of Cognitive and Generative Theories
Artificial Intelligence
2025-10-07 v1
Abstract
Evaluation is a critical activity associated with any theory. Yet this has proven to be an exceptionally challenging activity for theories based on cognitive architectures. For an overlapping set of reasons, evaluation can also be challenging for theories based on generative neural architectures. This dual challenge is approached here by leveraging a broad perspective on theory evaluation to yield a wide-ranging, albeit qualitative, comparison of whole-mind-oriented cognitive and generative architectures and the full systems that are based on these architectures.
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@article{arxiv.2510.03453,
title = {A Qualitative Comparative Evaluation of Cognitive and Generative Theories},
author = {Paul S. Rosenbloom},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.03453},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
To appear in Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS-25)