A Qualitative Comparative Evaluation of Cognitive and Generative Theories

Evaluation is a critical activity associated with any theory. Yet this has proven to be a n exceptionally challenging activity for theories based on cognitive architectures. For an overlapping set of reasons, evaluation can also be challenging for theories based on generative neural architectures. T h is dual challenge is approached here by leveraging a broad perspective on theory evaluation to yield a wide - ranging, albeit qualitative, comparison of whole - mind - orie n ted cognitive and generative architectures an d the full systems th a t are based on these architectures .