Here, we explore the extent to which the ACT-R cognitive architecture and the Unity game engine can be used for these purposes.
A related account models unity in the cognitive state in terms of comparative increase of coherence and elimination of spurious unity such as circularity or redundancy (Schurz 1999).
Because finding such unity is our ultimate cognitive aim, we take pleasure in this discovery, especially since the unity we find must appear contingent, as it were unexpected, if it is not linked to any determinate concept (see CPJ, Introduction VI, 5 186 7).
In searching for reductive unity underlying the variety of cognitive systems, Paul Churchland (1982) once recommended descending "below" neurobiology and even biochemistry, to the level of nonequilibrium thermodynamics.
At the other end of the cognitive process, we find an equally interesting form of unity, what we might call unity of behaviour: our ability to coordinate our limbs, eyes, bodily attitude, etc.
There is also unity in the exercise of our cognitive capacities, unity that consists of integration of motivating factors, perceptions, beliefs, etc., and there is unity in the outputs, unity that consists of integration of behaviour.
Indeed, the strange results of these operations in certain controlled conditions was one of the things that brought the unity of consciousness back onto the cognitive research agenda.
Unities and unifications help us meet cognitive and practical demands upon our life as well as cultural demands upon our self-images that are both cosmic and earthly.
Through the chemistry of association the perceiving of an ordinary thing is an emergent unity, a new whole which has that thing as its cognitive or intentional object.
