Full Idea
Connectionism is a way of capturing the holism of pattern recognition, as stressed by many critics of computational theories of mind.
Gist of Idea
Pattern recognition is puzzling for computation, but makes sense for connectionism
Source
Georges Rey (Contemporary Philosophy of Mind [1997], 8.8)
Book Reference
Rey,Georges: 'Contemporary Philosophy of Mind' [Blackwell 1997], p.226
A Reaction
I am drawn to the idea that arithmetic derives from pattern recognition, and the latter is basic to all minds (a kind of instant unthinking induction), so this seems to me a win for connectionism.