aguero.j@oxy.edu (Josefina Aguero) (11/29/88)
I am a senior at Occidental College busily putting together the thesis that is requiured for a Cognitive Science major. In my project, I am interested in making Connectionism accessible to people who know nothing about cognitive science. This involves educating people on simple things such as a little neurobiology, computer science and philosophy. The project is progressing slowly and carefully as I pour over McClelland and Rumelhart's PDP books. I would like some advice on what sort of issues I should emphasize, aside from what I am emphasizing now, which is reductionism. Advice on what approach to take, given that this project is aimed to be educational and for the most part descriptive, would be greatly appreciated. Also, just out of curiosity, I think the fact there have been other attempts in the past at building Connectionist models is important in explaining intellectual debts and understanding the context in which Connectionist models are flourishing, as opposed to before when parallel architectures were more experimentalK (sorry); I wonder if anyone believes this is important in understanding Connectionism. With this, I invite comments and advice. Thank you in advance. Josefina Aguero