The connectionist construction of concepts

In Margaret A. Boden (ed.), The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press (1990)
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The character of computational modelling of cognition depends on an underlying theory of representation. Classical cognitive science has exploited the syntax/semantics theory of representation that derives from logic. But this has had the consequence that the kind of psychological explanation supported by classical cognitive science is " _conceptualist_: " psychological phenomena are modelled in terms of relations that hold between concepts, and between the sensors/effectors and concepts. This kind of explanation is inappropriate for the Proper Treatment of Connectionism

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original Cussins, Adrian (1990) "The connectionist construction of concepts". In Boden, Margaret A., The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, pp. : Oxford University Press (1990)

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