Full Idea
In a connectionist system, information is represented not by sentences but by the total distribution of connection strengths.
Gist of Idea
Instead of representation by sentences, it can be by a distribution of connectionist strengths
Source
Robert Kirk (Mind and Body [2003], §7.6)
Book Reference
Kirk,Robert: 'Mind and Body' [Acumen 2003], p.149
A Reaction
Neither sentences (of a language of thought) NOR connection strengths strike me as very plausible ways for a brain to represent things. It must be something to do with connections, but it must also be to do with neurons, or we get bizarre counterexamples.