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Numbo

p 128-129 The Human Mind as a Stochastic Processor
[...] skill and consistency seemed to be negatively correlated. [...]
skilled people [...] have many strategies at hand.

p 140 The Cytoplasm
The difference between declarative and procedural knowledge of
arithmetic vanishes, once an operation has been performed. Indeed,
the result of an operation is stored in exaclty the same way as it
would have been, had it been a declarative piece of knowledge to begin
with.

p 149 Comparison with other computer models
GPS uses the heuristic-search paradigm directly: a problem is stated
in terms of objects and operators. The process is then guided by a
central executive, and all the entities are representedaccording to
their role in a specific task: there is no permanent, task-independent
representation of knowledge [...]

[p 153 Conclusions
One more drawback: after multiple failures, the pressure doesn't grow
to look for a priori more complex solutions]