I've been thinking about the potential of a return to grad school to control a macintosh web server running frontier integrating both a spider and a common lisp based production system cognitive modelling architecture. I have delved deeply into modelling the resulting representations of cognitive activity. It also does well at local interactions in natural language processing, leading to a subletly not found in MOOs or the web. A initial Long term memory would be created through analysis of the web.
People log in to our system and then travel from our web pages to others.
The server machine spiders the pages that they visit. The resulting word coocurrence patterns propagate through the system. Simon has done some really nice work modelling scientific enquiry. Lots has to be worked out here, but meta representations of the results of processing certain http nodes could match to the current state and a goal state. 3CAPS is also useful in modelling individual differences in cognition, namely through the limiting of the spread of activation.