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Well, the Charlie Gross paper on Lettvin and the Grandmother cell expends many more lines (pages) on Konorski than on Lettvin. Konorski was an outstanding scientist. The 1934 Konorski & Miller paper on the associations underlying classical conditioning is probably
the coolest paper I’ve ever read - it vies with Hecht, Schlaer, and Pirenne (1941?) as my favourite.</div>
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<b>From: </b>Gabriele Scheler <gscheler@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 26 August 2026 at 20:18<br>
<b>To: </b>dst@cs.cmu.edu <dst@cs.cmu.edu>; Michael Arbib <arbib@usc.edu>; Asim Roy <ASIM.ROY@asu.edu>; KENTRIDGE, ROBERT W. <robert.kentridge@durham.ac.uk>; solla@northwestern.edu <solla@northwestern.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Connectionists<br>
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What happened to my post to connectionists? Awaiting moderation? And what is the joke about Marvin Minsky influencing scientology and calling himself the devil?</div>
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Compared to that my post went straight to the topic:</div>
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My published work addressing concept cells and distributed representations via high information nodes ("index cells"), my concern at suppressing researchers as exemplified by James Bowers' report, my suggestion at a more inclusive rather than narrow parochial
view on neural network history and a valuable reference to Konorski as the originator of Hebbian learning - who was ostracized during Stalin's time, an experience that one should not want to repeat.</div>
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Gabriele</div>
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Dr. Gabriele Scheler<br>
Carl Correns Foundation for Mathematical Biology<br>
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