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I first heard of connectionism in 1982, when I began studying cognitive psychology. I had read Edward deBono's pioneering work, The Mechanism of Mind, twenty years earlier, and I had found it fascinating, but at that time the term “connectionism” had not yet been invented. When I learned about semantic networks, in which concepts were represented as points connected by links of various sorts, it seemed to me that concepts were much too rich to be described as mere points. Instead, I imagined them as long tangled threads meandering around in several dimensions, and I imagined the links between the concepts as the points where these threads met.
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I first heard of connectionism in 1982, when I began studying cognitive psychology. I had read Edward deBono's pioneering work, The Mechanism of Mind, twenty years earlier, and I had found it fascinating, but at that time the term “connectionism” had not yet been invented. When I learned about semantic networks, in which concepts were represented as points connected by links of various sorts, it seemed to me that concepts were much too rich to be described as mere points. Instead, I imagined them as long tangled threads meandering around in several dimensions, and I imagined the links between the concepts as the points where these threads met.
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