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From: dhw@itivax.iti.org (David H. West)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets,sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: request for philosophic reactions to connectionism
Keywords: connectionism philosophy materialism representations
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Date: 21 Apr 89 18:13:02 GMT
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In article <370@eurtrx.UUCP> hans@eurtrx.UUCP (Hans Schermer) writes:
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>Can anyone out there give me a hand?
>I am looking for philosophical papers, books or articles, with reactions
>to connectionism as a model for the mind. 

Huh?  Connectionism can't *be* a model for the mind.  It might be a
good way to *implement* certain models of the mind, or even a
heuristic criterion for evaluating such models ("must map easily to 
hardware of this general nature").  But it doesn't relieve us of the
task of coming up with the models separately.

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