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....probably the most important one for technical purposes. The traditional term used to pick out this kind is symbolic. That is, the core notion of symbolic representation is a compositional representation which is static (in both senses) digital, arbitrary, concatenative and syntactically strict (Newell and Simon, 1976; Fodor and Pylyshyn, 1988) Other forms of representation are appropriately said to be symbolic to the extent that they approximate this core notion. Are there other natural kinds An obvious candidate is apparently the cluster of properties possessed by spoken natural language (moving to the ....

Newell, Allen and Herbert Simon (1976) Computer science as empirical inquiry. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 19, 113-126.

....changes to the competence part of the model. 1 The connectionist model we propose provides an alternative account of people s limited ability to 1 See MacDonald Christiansen (1998) for a critical discussion of CC READER and similar language processing models based on production systems (Newell Simon, 1976). do recursion, without assuming an internally represented grammar which allows unbounded recursion i.e. without invoking the competence performance distinction. 2 In the light of this discussion, it is clear that, from the point of view of modeling psychological processes, we need not take ....

Newell, A. and Simon, H.A. (1976). Computer science as empirical inquiry. Communications of the ACM, 19, 113--126.

.... that is, an entity in a computer program that is taken to refer to some entity in the real world. Programs that instantiate mentality, this camp claims, will be a subset of the class of programs that perform computation directly on such symbols. This view has been carefully articulated by Newell and Simon (1976), and is discussed in more detail later. The connectionist school, by contrast, has only recently become a serious contender, although it has grown out of less visible research from the last few decades. On the connectionist view (Rumelhart, McClelland, the PDP Research Group, 1986) the level ....

....the symbolic and connectionist artificial intelligence endeavors, we must outline and compare the fundamental assumptions and commitments of these two schools. We start with the symbolic AI, whose underlying assumptions have been well stated by Newell and Simon, two of the founders of the field. Newell and Simon (1976) explicitly state the assumptions on which the symbolic AI research program rests, and group these under the name of the Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. This states, simply: A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action. To Newell and Simon, an ....

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Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon. Computer science as empirical inquiry. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, 19:113--126, 1976.

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