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    1. Mcodogno 06 Oct 2026
      In sum, although the methods that Newell and Simon and Sternberg use to reveal the nature of human thought differ, they share a commitment to the idea that cognitive processes are computational processes. A cognitive task can be made the subject of a means-end analysis, broken into regimented stages, and solved through the application of determinate procedures to symbolic representations

      Even with different things being studied, both seem to be trying to show that The brain may go through a set of steps to get to an answer and the process is kind of computer like

    2. Mcodogno 06 Oct 2026
      On the other hand, one might wonder how useful GPS might be as a guide to all of cognition, given the very constrained nature of problems to which means-end analyses are suited.

      When I was first doing the reading, I was thinking this the GPS can only really problem solve like a human to very structured problems but more complex problems such as things that involve social situations or being creative or having to create a decision that doesn’t have clear steps to a correct answer like using your morals or emotions. GPS wouldn’t be able to answer like a person would.

    3. Mcodogno 06 Oct 2026
      In this view, thoughts are sentences in an internal language, and reasoning involves combining and manipulating the components of these sentences, just as one might do when performing syllogisms in a natural language.

      I was a little confused when I was first reading this part, but this helped me understand the comparison between human mind and computer a little more. I think it’s saying just like words or numbers can only be combined in specific ways according to rules the theory is suggesting our brain also processes and manipulates symbols that we know of according to rules that we have kind of like a computer

    4. Mcodogno 05 Oct 2026
      Because the purpose of GPS was to replicate the stages involved in human problem-solving abilities, its assessment required that the problem-solving procedure it used be tested against the problem-solving procedures that human beings use.

      This was interesting to me because GPS was meant to replicate the stages humans use when they problem solve not just producing the same final answer. It made me think a lot recent AI how rapidly it has progressed in the past few years and also whether producing human like results would mean a computer is thinking the same way humans do. I don’t personally think it does because human thinking is a lot more complex and involves things beyond just problem solving and pattern recognition.

    5. Mcodogno 05 Oct 2026
      the purpose of which was not only to solve logic problems, but to solve them in the same way that a human being would (1961, 1976)

      I didn’t know this about the GPS and I find it very interesting. It reminded me of the idea from the lecture last week that computer equals mind because the GPS was trying to copy not just human answers but to process things and solve things the way that humans do

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