The McCulloch and Pitts theory was the inspiration for “connectionism,” the specific variant of artificial intelligence dominant today (now called “deep learning”), which its aficionados ...

connectionism, and embodied cognition. With this foundation in place, we will transition into talking about more specialized areas of philosophy of mind, including the philosophy of psychiatry and the ...

So, while expert systems aimed to model human knowledge, a separate field known as connectionism was also emerging that aimed ...

Hebb believed that synaptic connections were the material basis of mental associations, but he went beyond the naive connectionism of behaviorists like J. B. Watson in two important respects.