Re: Does PDP = Nets = Connectionism?

From: HARNAD Stevan (harnad@cogsci.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 16 1996 - 18:46:47 BST


> From: "Lee, Liz" <EAL195@psy.soton.ac.uk>
> Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 12:04:29 GMT
>
> Is parallel distributed processing just another name for
> connectionism? It crops up a lot in the literature but I haven't
> managed to fit it into place yet.

Yes, PDP = Nets = Connectionism. Neural nets a parallel, distributed
processors, and they are in interconnected. The only thing that isn't
always true about them is that they are really "neural"! That remains
to be seen...



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