What is "connectionist"

Usage examples of "connectionist".

Yet the limitations of connectionist neurobiology and the philosophy it spawns are very clear, and I believe in the long run will fatally flaw them, for reasons which will become apparent as my account proceeds.

A simple connectionist view of memory would have to insist on such direct links.

Even if we reject the idea, discussed in Chapter 9, of a cellular alphabet of memory, connectionist theories would imply that the site of the memory was a discrete albeit distributed ensemble of cells.

Thus even when the very ideas of representation and information processing change considerably, as they do in the study of connectionist networks, self-organization, and emergent properties, some form of the realist assumption remains.

Then there's the 'coder link to maintain, not to mention the interface analysers, designed to crack the connectionist language of a neural network and allow your human friends to inject their cannibal memes at will.

The connectionist and society models, in fact, are prime examples of subtle reductionism: in championing emergence, networks, global properties, holarchies, and so forth, they loudly battle the gross reductionism of simple atomistic representationismonly to ensconce their own subtle reductionism in a way that makes it all the harder to spot (and thus doubly reinforces the primary problem).