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Connectionism is an important new approach in the interdisciplinary field known as cognitive science, involving computer science, cognitive psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and related fields. Connectionism suggests the possibility of an alternative to the conception of mind on the model of the modern digital computer—the so-called computer metaphor—which has dominated thinking about the mind, both popular and philosophical, since the advent of artificial intelligence in the 1950’s.
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Tienson, J. (1991). Introduction. In: Horgan, T., Tienson, J. (eds) Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mind. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3524-5_1
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