Ron Sun

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"The distinction between “intuitive” and “reflective” thinking has been, arguably, one of the most important distinctions in cognitive science. There are currently many dual-process theories (two-system views) out there."

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"Toward developing a more fine-grained and more comprehensive framework, I will adopt the more generic but less loaded terms of implicit and explicit processes (Reber, 1989, Sun, 2002) and present a more nuanced view of these processes, centered on a computational “cognitive architecture”."

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"It is assumed in this work that cognitive processes are carried out in two distinct ‘levels’ with qualitatively different mechanisms. Each level encodes a fairly complete set of knowledge for its processing, and the coverage of the two sets of knowledge encoded by the two levels overlaps substantially."

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"It thus seems necessary that we come up with more nuanced and more detailed characterizations of the two systems (the two types of processes) in order to avoid painting the picture in too broad strokes."