On Alan Turing's anticipation of connectionism |
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Authors: | B Jack Copeland Diane Proudfoot |
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Institution: | (1) Philosophy Department, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | It is not widely realised that Turing was probably the first person to consider building computing machines out of simple, neuron-like elements connected together into networks in a largely random manner. Turing called his networks unorganised machines . By the application of what he described as appropriate interference, mimicking education an unorganised machine can be trained to perform any task that a Turing machine can carry out, provided the number of neurons is sufficient. Turing proposed simulating both the behaviour of the network and the training process by means of a computer program. We outline Turing's connectionist project of 1948.In Memory of Robin Gandy |
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