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We advocate for a novel connectionist modeling framework as an answer to a set of challenges to AGI and cognitive science put forth by classical formal systems approaches. We show how this framework, which we call Vector Symbolic Architectures, or VSAs, is also the kind of model of mental activity that we arrive at by taking Ludwig Wittgenstein’s critiques of the philosophy of mind and language seriously. We conclude by describing how VSA and related architectures provide a compelling solution to three central problems raised by Wittgenstein in the Philosophical Investigations regarding rule-following, aspect-seeing, and the development of a “private” language.
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Levy, S.D., Lowney, C., Meroney, W., Gayler, R.W. (2014). Bracketing the Beetle: How Wittgenstein’s Understanding of Language Can Guide Our Practice in AGI and Cognitive Science. In: Goertzel, B., Orseau, L., Snaider, J. (eds) Artificial General Intelligence. AGI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8598. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09274-4_8
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