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Functional aspects of implementation are relevant

Material properties of the brain are irrelevant to cognition. But connectionism is concerned with functional properties of the brain (e.g. parallel processing and graceful degradation) that are relevant to cognition not material properties.

Keith Butler, 1993a.
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