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5). The reason is that the functional role of the symbolic representations and the inference rules can be given many different realizations, neurophysiological, electronic, or others. The causal relations governing such a material realization of a mental state will be different for different realizations, even if they represent the same logical relations. Pylyshyn writes (1984, 27): "My brain states are not, as we have noted, causally connected in appropriate ways to walking and to mountains. 2 The Limitations of Symbolic Representations After outlining this position, I now turn to the limitations of the representational power of the symbolic approach.

Similarly, the Chomskian tradition in linguistics focuses on the syntax of language. Language is seen as strings of symbols that can be processed by different kinds of automata, of which the Turing machine is the most advanced. The main operations are parsing of a string of symbols according to a (recursive) set of grammatical rules, and, conversely, generation of strings according to the grammatical rules. The material basis for the symbolic processesâbe it logical, linguistic, or of a more general psychological natureâis irrelevant to the description of their results.

Even after an agent has learned a concept, the meaning of the concept very often changes as a result of new experiences. In the symbolic mode of representation, there has been no satisfactory way of modeling the dynamics of concepts. The fact that artificial neuron networks can adapt their categorizations to new experiences has been claimed as an advantage of the networks over symbolic systems, but I argue that the conceptual level is the most appropriate to model this kind of process. Yet another problem for the symbolic approach is highlighted by Harnad (1990).

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