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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Connectionism"”.
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Connectionism, disciplinary identity and continuity
Connectionism, a new technique for modeling cognitive processes, has been presented by its supporters as a revolutionary advance that will soon replace conventional artificial intelligence (AI) research based on the serial computer. In this thesis, I identify three 'gambits' with which critics …
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Connectionism and the integration of error : applications in naturalized epistemology and minimal rationality
… that psychology could not. The convergence of connectionism and naturalized epistemology then embodies the normative principle that we should be fallibilistic about beliefs and realistic about believers.
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Epistemic opacity: a feature not a bug: an exploration into the relationship between brains and ANNs
… to be dominated by one school in particular, connectionism. And its successes are all around us – in the media we consume, in the music we listen to, in the cold calls we receive, etc. While this school was founded by psychologists, logicians, and philosophers with the goal of replicating …
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Understanding leader representations: Beyond implicit leadership theory
… for the suggested integration of the theories of connectionism and leadership. Recent theoretical writings in the field of leadership have suggested that the dynamic representations generated by the connectionist perspective is an appropriate approach to understanding how we perceive leaders. …
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Autoethnography to artography: An exhibition of cognition in artist teacher practice
… captures how cognitive curation, through connectionism, is possible whilst modelling how an understanding of cognition is useful to reinstate value in art education.<br/><br/>The thesis as exhibition presents visual, reflexive and textual stories that are communicated through theoretical, …
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Autoethnography to artography: An exhibition of cognition in artist teacher practice
… captures how cognitive curation, through connectionism, is possible whilst modelling how an understanding of cognition is useful to reinstate value in art education. The thesis as exhibition presents visual, reflexive and textual stories that are communicated through theoretical, personal …
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Die Dynamik psychischer Störungen : Strukturen und Prozesse aus der Perspektive konnektionistischer Modelle
Welche Prozesse bringen Phänomene psychischer Störungen hervor? Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, einen wissenschaftlichen Beitrag zur Klärung dieser Frage zu leisten. Den theoretischen Rahmen bilden konnektionistische Ansätze, die menschliche Informationsverarbeitungsprozesse in Analogie zur …
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INVESTIGATIONS ON COGNITIVE COMPUTATION AND COMPUTATIONAL COGNITION
This Thesis describes our work at the boundary between Computer Science and Cognitive (Neuro)Science. In particular, (1) we have worked on methodological improvements to clustering-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging data, which is a technique that allows to collectively assess, in a quantitative …
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På AI-teknikens axlar : Om kunskapssociologin och stark artificiell intelligens
This dissertation is concerned with Sociology’s stance in the debate on Strong Artificial Intelligence, i.e. such AI that is able to shape new knowledge without human interference. There is a need for sociologists to realize the difference between two approaches to constructing AI systems: Symbolic …
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
Afrikaans: Die kognitiewe linguistiek voer aan dat meeste abstrakte konsepte slegs in terme van metafore bedink en verstaan kan word. Dekolonialiteit as abstrakte konsep is steeds ’n vurige besprekingspunt in die konteks van hoër onderwys in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie verhandeling beoog om die verband …