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Notes:
Success in explaining human performance may depend a great deal on understanding the operation of fairly basic processes because these processes constrain and support the operations of those so-called higher cognitive functions.
There is likely to be much to gain from attempting to model the performance of whole organisms behaving according to real needs in a real environment.
The solution of circumscribed problems may be deceptive in that there may be simple special-purpose solutions to the particular problem being modeled that cannot generalize to a broader domain.
Human intelligence, as a whole, may simply be too complex to model until we have a more complete understanding of more fundamental processes.
