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From: aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: request for philosophic reactions to connectionism
Summary: Mind vs Brain
Message-ID: <9441@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 89 13:49:24 GMT
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Hans Schermer writes:

>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. 


I didn't think connectionism tries to model the mind, I rather thought it
models the brain. An actual working model of the mind doesn't neccesarily
require modelling the brain. Psychoanalysts have been doing it (with
varying success) for years.
One could make a connectionist model of the mind, if, somehow, one could map
cognitive function (left intentionally ambiguous) to a set of connection
weights.
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