The Syntactic Argument
The representation-without-rules conception of connectionism can't succeed, because rules can always be formulated to describe the network’s representation-level processing.


Such rules can:

  • specify how the parts of a representation are instantiated in nodes and connections (representation instantiation rules), and can
  • characterise the operation of individual nodes in the network (note-level rules).
Anticipated by Terence Horgan and John Tienson, 1991.
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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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Connectionist networks can think without following rules »Connectionist networks can think without following rules
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Representations without rules »Representations without rules
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The Syntactic Argument
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The Multiple Realisability Defence  »The Multiple Realisability Defence
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