Christopher D. Green (1998) Lashley's Lesson is not Germane
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Psycoloquy 9(07): Lashley's Lesson is not Germane
LASHLEY'S LESSON IS NOT GERMANE
Reply to Orbach on Connectionist-Explanation
Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
Canada
http://www.yorku.ca/faculty/academic/christo
christo@yorku.ca
Abstract
Orbach (1998) incorrectly interprets my target article
(Green 1998) as claiming that connectionist networks actually model
neural activity, whereas in reality I argue that nets will NEED to
model neural activity if they are to model anything at all.
Keywords
artificial intelligence, cognition, computer modelling,
connectionism, epistemology, explanation, methodology, neural nets,
philosophy of science, theory.
References
- Green, CD. (1998) Are Connectionist Models Theories of Cognition? PSYCOLOQUY 9(4). ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1998.volume.9/ psyc.98.9.04.connectionist-explanation.1.green.
- McClelland, J. L., Rumelhart, D. E., & Hinton, G. E. (1986) The appeal of parallel distributed processing. In: Parallel distributed processing: Explorations in the microstructure of cognition (vol. 1), ed. Rumelhart, D. E. & McClelland, J. L., MIT Press.
- Orbach, J. (1998). Do wires model neurons? Commentary on Green on connectionist-explanation. PSYCOLOQUY 9 (5). ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1998.volume.9/ psyc.98.9.05.connectionist-explanation.2.orbach.
- Orbach, J. (in press). The Neuropsychological Theories of Lashley and Hebb. Lanham MD: University Press of America.