Video games as a path to a contextualized cognitive science, or How to play 20 questions with nature and win

Photo of Allen Newell at a blackboard.
Allen Newell

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Revisiting Newell’s (1973) address “You can’t play 20 questions with nature and win”, we explore how video games may serve as the complex behavioral paradigm that Newell sought, which is necessary to study in order to make progress towards a unified theory of cognition.

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