Istvan S. N. Berkeley

Philosophy professor (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) who has argued twice, independently, that the standard history of connectionism's antagonistic relationship with symbolic AI is "highly selective, partial and in certain respects, down right misleading" — a 1997 course-page essay ("A Revisionist History of Connectionism") and a peer-reviewed 2019 article ("The Curious Case of Connectionism," Open Philosophy 2, pp. 190–205). Matters to this vault as one of two independent secondary voices (alongside Yuxi Liu) checked for whether the published literature has already combined Dreyfus and Stuart Dreyfus's 1988 "vindicated, not refuted" account with Olazaran's 1993 SRI-funding account — Berkeley cites Dreyfus & Dreyfus (1988) directly in both pieces as representative of the "standard history," but cites Olazaran in neither, running his correction instead through Minsky's own continued network research and personal testimony.

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