Gary Marcus

Anybody else see a problem with highly-paid researchers at leading institutions refusing to engage in reading outside their own discipline? (Aside: book in question-The Algebraic Mind-is not general audience; it's a technical book in MIT Press's prestigious Bradford series.)https://twitter.com/zergylord/status/1200694810904018945 …

refusing to engage in reading your book being the specific case here; who knows what else they read?

Norbert Wiener's 1948 Cybernetics was a very good book. :-D I wonder if @GaryMarcus the many books on Cybernetics or later books involving Complex Adaptive Systems. A lot of the Enactivist Cognition arose out of this. My suspicion is that he has not. I could be wrong though.

this is an old story for sure, but the worldview implicit in those charts is that there are only two interesting directions seems a bit limiting

Top down (symbolist) vs bottom up (connectionist). What other direction do you propose?

I propose that we have to find a framework that allows us to learn (what ML tries to do) over symbolic abstractions (which people use routinely when they talk, write and read). many processes, top-down and bottom-up, must fuse the two.

I also disagree. We talk, write and read using neural networks and not a symbolic machine.