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Proudly published with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: A metatheory of classical and modern connectionism. doi.org/10.1037/rev0... We touch on what has been up with connectionism as a framework for computational modelling — & for everything it seems these days with AI and LLMs — pre-2010 vs post. 1/n

One important thing we need to impress on colleagues and everybody, I guess, is that these systems and the ideas behind them are NOT new. As you see from Margaret Boden's words, they might even be 100s of years old! doi.org/10.1037/rev0... 2/n

Another, related aspect, that I wanted to highlight in this work is the difference in stances — some much more damaging than others — that appears to have occurred around 2010. These are summarised in Table 1, here: doi.org/10.1037/rev0...; e.g. goals seem to shift from theory to prediction. 3/n

very glad I've fallen into this particular rabbit hole this morning. this is fascinating.