Burton R. Wolin
ABSTRACT
Humans are considered as general purpose computers. They ask two questions of the environment, "What is most likely to be the situation next?", and, "What do I do now?" A research program is described which seeks to determine how, and how well, humans can answer the former question or predict the environment.
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