Connectionist Selectionism: A Case Study of Parity
Rio B. T. Lowry, Michael R. W. Dawson · 2005
Abstract—There is a general view that instructionist and selectionist theories of adapting to an environment are mutually incompatible [1-4]. Below, we report the results of a series of computer simulations that demonstrate that this is not necessarily the case. Our simulations show that the main ideas of selectionism can be incorporated into a standard instructionist framework, which can benefit both perspectives.