Francis Steen: UCLA Department of Communication Studies

I argued in Steen & Owens (2001) that play is a behavioral and cognitive simulation whose biological function is learning. In this presentation, I address the question of how such learning takes place, focusing on the role of consciousness. I present some preliminary data from an experiment on strategy-learning in a solitaire game, and a cognitive model of the large-scale architecture of the mind required to support learning from simulations.
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/crp/Papers/Steen_Paradox.html