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Single Idea 3075
[filed under theme 17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 4. Connectionism
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Full Idea
If the right pattern of electrical discharges occurred in a cloud instead of in a brain, would that also be a headache?
Gist of Idea
Could a cloud have a headache if its particles formed into the right pattern?
Source
Gilbert Harman (Thought [1973], 3.2)
Book Ref
Harman,Gilbert: 'Thought' [Princeton 1977], p.38
A Reaction
The standard objection to functionalism is to propose absurd implementations of a mind, but probably only a brain could produce the right electro-chemical combination.
The
14 ideas
with the same theme
[mind is the sum of many associations/connections]:
3075
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Could a cloud have a headache if its particles formed into the right pattern?
[Harman]
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2490
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Modern connectionism is just Hume's theory of the 'association' of 'ideas'
[Fodor]
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2447
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Hume has no theory of the co-ordination of the mind
[Fodor]
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12624
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Only the labels of nodes have semantic content in connectionism, and they play no role
[Fodor]
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2991
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Hume's associationism offers no explanation at all of rational thought
[Fodor]
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4998
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Instead of representation by sentences, it can be by a distribution of connectionist strengths
[Kirk,R]
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3199
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Connectionism assigns numbers to nodes and branches, and plots the outcomes
[Rey]
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3201
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Connectionism explains well speed of perception and 'graceful degradation'
[Rey]
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3202
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Connectionism explains irrationality (such as the Gamblers' Fallacy) quite well
[Rey]
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3200
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Pattern recognition is puzzling for computation, but makes sense for connectionism
[Rey]
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2984
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Perceptions could give us information without symbolic representation
[Lyons]
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7511
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Neural networks can generalise their training, e.g. truths about tigers apply mostly to lions
[Pinker]
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7512
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There are five types of reasoning that seem beyond connectionist systems
[Pinker, by PG]
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18562
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Connectionists cannot distinguish concept-memories from their background, or the processes
[Machery]
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