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A pragmatic look at artificial intelligence

The proper proper treatment of connectionism

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EPIA 89 (EPIA 1989)

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Abstract

Based on recent claims and counter-claims about the nature of human mental processing, this article reviews some of the evidence presented, and tries to dispel some myths surrounding the ‘new’ cognitive science (also called ‘PDP’, ‘connectionism’, ‘neural network theory’, and so on).

In particular, the question of the so-called ‘subsymbolic’ level of representation is raised, and some of the implications of implementing fully connectionist machines in a human surrounding are discussed.

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  1. The Rasmus Rask Institute of Linguistics, Odense University, Campusvej 55, DK-5230, Odense M, Denmark

    Jacob L. Mey

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Mey, J.L. (1989). A pragmatic look at artificial intelligence. In: Martins, J.P., Morgado, E.M. (eds) EPIA 89. EPIA 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 390. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51665-4_69

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