{"pk":31348,"title":"Taking Connectionism Seriously:","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Connectionism is drawing much attention as a new paradigm for cognitive science. A n important objective of connectionism has become the definition of a subsymbolic bridge between the mind and the brain. By analyzing an important example of this subsymbolic approach, NETtalk, I will show that this type of connectionism does not fulfil its promises and is applying new techniques in a symbolic approach. It is shown that connectionist models can only become part of such a new approach when they are embedded in an alternative conceptual framework where the emphasis is not placed upon what knowledge a system must posses to be able to accomplish a task but on how a system can develop this knowledge through its interaction with the environment.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3tn1h2mx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Paul","middle_name":"F.M.J.","last_name":"Verschure","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Zurich","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1992-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31348/galley/22417/download/"}]}