Connectionists: Early history of symbolic and neural network approaches to AI

[Michael Arbib]

So you believe that, as you wrote out these words, the neural networks in your brain did not deal with symbols?

From: Connectionists <connectionists-bounces at mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu> On Behalf Of Weng, Juyang
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I do not agree with Newell and Simon if they wrote that.   Otherwise, images and video are also symbols.  They probably were not sophisticated enough in 1976 to realize why neural networks in the brain should not contain or deal with symbols.

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