[ACT-R-users] Hello,everyone. New ideas are flushing my head.

[Wang Junchao]

Hello,everyone. As I am a freshman in the area of Artificial Intelligence, I got a lot of things unclear. 
But I think that it both has advantages and disadvantages.
For the good part, I can think of questions freely without the constraint of the available knowledge.
For the bad part, I don't know whether some methods have been proposed or applied by others.
Recently, new ideas are flushing my head. So I'd like to share it with you.
As
ACT-R is designed to simulate the behavior of human beings, so there 
must be a question that can not be neglected——humans can forget 
something. I think that's why humans can store so much information. For 
example, I remember that once I've been to a room. However, when others 
asked me to describe the room, then maybe I can only remember the main layout of it. A lot of details such as the color of the furniture have 
been forgotten. I think this forgeting is quite natural. 

With the explosion of the state and knowledge, some unimportant information 
must be negelected. I am asking that whether this mechenism has been 
realized in ACT-R and is it worth researching?
Looking forward for your reply.
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