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Cognition without classical architecture
pp. 291-305
Abstract
Fodor and Pylyshyn (1988) argue that any successful model of cognition must use classical architecture; it must depend upon rule-based processing sensitive to constituent structure. This claim is central to their defense of classical AI against the recent enthusiasm for connectionism. Connectionist nets, they contend, may serve as theories of the implementation of cognition, but never as proper theories of psychology. Connectionist models are doomed to describing the brain at the wrong level, leaving the classical view to account for the mind.
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(1994) Synthese 100 (2).
Pages: 291-305
DOI: 10.1007/BF01063812
Full citation:
Garson James W. (1994) „Cognition without classical architecture“. Synthese 100 (2), 291–305.