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#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition
Lex Fridman Podcast
Connectionism Is a Conan-Intuitive Idea
The idea that we have propositional knowledge of what it is that allows us to recognize that this is an actual instance of this particular natural kind has always been something that it never worked, right? You couldn't ever write down a set of propositions for visual recognition. The connections only cause outputs to occur based on inputs. That's such a conan-intuitive idea. Do humans want to think in this logic way? This idea of connectionism, it doesn't, it's weird. It's weird that this is how it all works. Yeah. But let's go back to that CNN, right? That CNN with all those layers of neuron-like processing units that we were talking about
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