2023
DOI: 10.1038/s41583-023-00705-w
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The neuroconnectionist research programme

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“…Bowers et al's long list of cited studies presenting shortcomings of particular models neither demonstrates the failure of the ANN modeling framework in general nor a lack of openness of the field to falsifications of ANN models. Instead, their list of citations rather impressively illustrates the opposite: That the emerging ANN research program (referred to as "neuroconnectionism" in Doerig et al, 2022) is progressive in the sense of Lakatos: It generates a rich variety of falsifiable hypotheses (expressed in the language of ANNs) and advances through model comparison (Doerig et al, 2022). Each shortcoming drives improvement.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Bowers et al's long list of cited studies presenting shortcomings of particular models neither demonstrates the failure of the ANN modeling framework in general nor a lack of openness of the field to falsifications of ANN models. Instead, their list of citations rather impressively illustrates the opposite: That the emerging ANN research program (referred to as "neuroconnectionism" in Doerig et al, 2022) is progressive in the sense of Lakatos: It generates a rich variety of falsifiable hypotheses (expressed in the language of ANNs) and advances through model comparison (Doerig et al, 2022). Each shortcoming drives improvement.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Initially random in high-dimensional space, the hidden layers' representations become organized to distinguish class instances effectively through learning. This process mirrors the brain's processing strategy and suggests shared computational principles between natural and artificial systems (58)(59)(60). Moreover, both systems might cluster similar sensory data to optimize energy use, adhering to environmental and computational limits, thus minimizing extraneous exploration of the sensory state space in favor of more streamlined information processing (61)(62)(63)(64).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 82%
“…In both of these cases, seemingly complex neural representations can be described with more elementary mathematical algorithms. That said, the fact that the modern incarnation of connectionist networks, deep learning models, provides increasingly rich explanations of neurocognitive phenomena (Churchland & Sejnowski, 2016; Cichy & Kaiser, 2019; Doerig et al, 2023; Kriegeskorte, 2015; Peters & Kriegeskorte, 2021; Saxe et al, 2021; Yamins & DiCarlo, 2016) attests that the correspondence between the neural and algorithmic levels may be more than just an analogy (notwithstanding various objections: Arshavsky, 2023; Bowers et al, 2022; Pang et al, 2023). It thus remains to be determined how deep into the brain the controllosphere metaphor can be pressed.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%