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"Connectionism" was coined in the 1980s and referred to more than just ANNs / Perceptrons
[edit]This is just from my own memory as an undergraduate who read Parallel Distributed Processing when it first came out.
"Connectionism" was a very loose term when it first started being used, and was also used to refer semantic networks, entity-relationship models, markov decision processes, and a number of other things. "Connectionism" was more of a philosophy or criticism term, and not anything like a unified research program. It was unclear at the time what it all meant or if it mattered. That was my impression.
I removed the attribution to Thorndike, as his theory of "connectionism" isn't remotely related.
I'm sorry but I don't have sources for this, but I think Nils John Nilsson's history of AI might shed some light. He was right in the middle of the argument and sympathetic to both sides. CharlesTGillingham (talk) 21:03, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
- Since machine learning imitates human learning, the reference may be appropriate after all: Edward Thorndike (1931) Human Learning, page 122 — Rgdboer (talk) 22:47, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
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