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title: "In the Quest of the Missing Link"
authors:
  - "Guilherme Bittencourt"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/46"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/0046.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1997
pages: "310-314"
track: "Cognitive Modeling"
keywords:
---

# In the Quest of the Missing Link

Guilherme Bittencourt

*Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 310-314.

## Abstract

This paper presents a generic model for a cognitive agent based on the hypothesis that the cognitive activity has three main characteristics: self-organization, evolutionary nature and history dependence. According to this model, a cognitive agent presents three levels: reactive, instinctive and cognitive. Each level, together with its lower levels, is intended to model a complete agent, each new level just increasing the behavior complexity. The generic model is instantiated into a computational architecture that integrates connectionist, evolutionary computation and symbolic approaches.