Brain-style modelling can be misleading
Basing psychological theories on facts about the brain can be misleading. Neural inspiration seems useful, but it's led to a revival of such weak psychological theories as: associationism; microfeature analysis; and  statistically based learning.
"One should be deeply suspicious of the heroic sort of brain modelling the purports to address the problems of cognition."

Jerry Fodor & Zenon Pylyshyn 1988 (p.64).
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Artificial Intelligence »Artificial Intelligence
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Can computers think? [1] »Can computers think? [1]
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Yes: connectionist networks can think [5a] »Yes: connectionist networks can think [5a]
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The Connectionist Biological Assumption  »The Connectionist Biological Assumption
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Brain-style modelling can be misleading
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Jerry Fodor »Jerry Fodor
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Zenon Pylyshyn »Zenon Pylyshyn
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