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A theory of the mind with many versions.

They have in common that they set up models which employ simple interactions between the nodes in a computer network in such a way that sets of these interactions occur at the same time (or ‘in parallel’, hence ‘parallel processing’).

This uses the information processing in the brain or nervous system as a model, and dispenses with separate elements in the system to carry the separate pieces of information; for example, sentences in a code which represent memories, thoughts, and so on. (Also see: trace theory of money, language of thought.)

It is disputed whether this whole approach represents a fundamentally new way of looking at thought, or whether it simply gives a microlevel analysis of an older or classical view such as that used in cognitive psychology.

Source:
W Bechtel and A Abrahamsen, Connectionism and the Mind (1991)

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    • 2.2 Connectionism: A Hands-on Approach
    • 2.3 Connectionism and Second Language Acquisition (Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition Series)
    • 2.4 Toward a Unified Theory of Development: Connectionism and Dynamic Systems Theory Re-Considered (Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)
    • 2.5 Turing's Connectionism: An Investigation of Neural Network Architectures
    • 2.6 Exercises in Rethinking Innateness: A Handbook for Connectionist Simulations (Neural Network Modeling and Connectionism)
    • 2.7 Analogy-Making as Perception (Neural Network Modeling and Connectionism)
    • 2.8 Music and Connectionism (MIT Press)
    • 2.9 Connectionism and the Mind: Parallel Processing, Dynamics, and Evolution in Networks
    • 2.10 Connectionism in Context (Human-centred Systems)

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